The fifth annual “end of season” dairy sale at the Automart Stockcentre, Portadown, had met with a marvellous, reported Farming Life during this week in 1993.
Kathleen Duffy
Co. Cavan woman Kathleen Duffy is logging out this week, as she retires after 24 years working with Irish Farm Computers on Herdmaster, AgriNet Grass and more recently HerdAPP, on software support.
Mother of outgoing Macra na Feirme president Thomas Duffy, she has assisted in the running of the renowned Virginia Show for the past 25 years, and was involved in the setting up and running of the €1 million show centre which opened in 2014.
She lives outside Virginia, and farms with her husband Ned, as well as Thomas.
Kathleen, who has a B.Sc. Honours degree in rural development and a postgraduate higher diploma in adult and community education, remembers the beginning of farm software, back in the late 1990s.