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Former Kerry Co-op chair James Doyle said he is going back to arbitration with Kerry Group on the leading milk price issue.
In a letter seen by the Irish Farmers Journal, former Kerry chair James Doyle has said he is going back to arbitration with Kerry Group over the leading milk price issue.
Having given time to the co-op board and Kerry Group to renegotiate following the last arbitration outcome, he says little progress has been made.
In the letter, he says: “I, on behalf of the 2,700 Kerry milk suppliers that signed the original arbitration forms, have decided once again to go back to arbitration to finally conclude matters.
April 7, 2021 4:50 pm
Kerry milk suppliers are “returning to arbitration” to try and hammer out a conclusion regarding the “leading milk price” issue, a former chairman of Kerry Co-op has claimed.
In a statement today (Wednesday, April 7), James Doyle, a dairy farmer from Beaufort, Co. Kerry, former co-op chairman and lead negotiator for milk suppliers in the original arbitration case, said:
“I, on behalf of the 2,700 Kerry milk suppliers that signed the original arbitration forms, have decided once again to go back to arbitration to finally conclude matters.
“My decision was not taken lightly and was taken after considerable time was given to Kerry Group plc and Kerry Co-Op to finalise and pay out what is owed to us milk suppliers.”
A motion calling on Cork County Council to recognise period poverty as a real issue for women and to provide free sanitary products in public toilets was passed unanimously at Monday s online meeting of the local authority.
Despite that the motion proposed by Cllr Gobnait Moynihan was passed 26-0, with just one absentention on International Women s Day, there doesn t seem to be any likelihood of early movement from the council to implement the terms of the motion.
In a response from the Council s Director of Services Niall Healy, it was suggested that a decision from a Government committee considering the issue be awaited.
The shares will instead be divided among the surviving siblings and extended family of the deceased.
Thomas O Connell was gifted Kerry Co-Operative shares in a 1990 will of his uncle, John T Cronin who died some 23 years later in 2013, aged in his nineties.
Mr O Connell, who inherited his uncle s farm, remains entitled to the estimated €272,438 value of those Kerry Co-op shares but not to the Kerry Group shares.
In her judgment on Friday, Ms Justice Nuala Butler noted Mr Cronin, born in 1921, was one of 12 siblings reared on a small farm in Ballahantouragh, near Scartaglin.
He left school as a teenager and began farming, later inheriting the 38 acre family farm from his parents. He never married but was an integral part of a large extended family.