Bóthar founder steps down after 20 years

THE founder of one of Ireland’s most successful charities, livestock aid organisation Bóthar, has announced his retirement as chief exec-utive after 20 years in the post.

Peter Ireton, 59, will retire this week after developing the organisation into a charity with a yearly turnover of €10 million.

Bóthar grew from an original concept as a one-off gesture of sending an airlift of cows to Africa to mark Limerick Treaty 300 celebrations in 1991.