We’re always told by the boffins that dairying is where the big bucks are but I see that one dairy man has converted to beef.

Outgoing Kerry Group chief Stan McCarthy is joining beef farmer Michael O’Leary’s board at Ryanair.

Stan joins the board of Europe’s largest airline later in May as a non-executive director and will leave Kerry in September.

Stan’s appointment has to be ratified by board members but seeing as he leaves Kerry with the company valued at some €14bn, that should pass through.