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Macra has provided young people with the opportunity to become leaders, with leaders from the local hall committee to the Dáil, former Macra na Feirme president Thomas Honnor has said.
Honnor delivered a stirring speech at the associations 75th AGM dinner in Athy on Saturday.
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, to learn more, to do more and to become more, then you are a leader and the onus is on you to make this organisation a strong one,” he said.
During his rousing speech, he added: “Young farmers are found in fields, ploughing up, sowing down, rotating for, fertilising with, spraying to and harvesting if. The department confuses them, salesmen detain them, city folks come and visit them, meals wait for them, the weather delays them, their spouses help them and little children idolise them. It takes a heaven to stop them.
“Nobody has in his pocket at any one time a three-blade knife, a chequebook, an overdue account, a vicegrip, a memo book, a rusty nail, a few grains of barley and the stub of a pencil.”
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