The Dealer hears UCD lecturer Bridget Lynch has handed in her notice and is soon to join Teagasc in Johnstown Castle. The commute will be shorter for Bridget, who is setting up a dairy enterprise in Wexford with her husband, former livestock editor with the Irish Farmers Journal Padraig Foley, who also happens to work with Teagasc in Johnstown Castle.

Paidi Kelly.

Also on the move is Páidí Kelly. The Tipperary man is leaving Teagasc Moorepark to set up his own advisory and training business in tandem with private consultant Matt Ryan and New Zealand’s Lynaire Ryan.

Páidí is a former dairy specialist from this parish and runs a number of dairy farms in Limerick with business partner James Murphy, who you’ll recognise from the AIB ads.