Farming faithful flock to IFA golden jubilee

GOD must have been in the IFA, judging by the religious overtones that gripped the RDS yesterday for the association’s golden jubilee celebrations.

The National Farmers Association (NFA) was founded 50 years ago on the Feast of the Epiphany and yesterday almost 3,000 of its faithful made another pilgrimage to Dublin to mark the anniversary.

There was an Ecumenical Service of Remembrance with Cardinal Desmond Connell, Archbishop John Neill, Rev Dr Kenneth Wilson, Methodist, and Rev Alan Mitchell, Presbyterian, taking part.