It was more of a sprint than a marathon for Kevin O’Malley, appointed US ambassador to Ireland in 2014. But he achieved much in those two years, writes Dan Buckley

THE Irish Farmers Association millennium library and archive, officially opened in the Country Life Museum, a branch of the National Museum of Ireland, at Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo, yesterday, will be a centre for study and research by national and international scholars.