• Milk To North Kerry Is Like Oil To The Arabs

  • Dec 1 2024
  • Length: 46 mins
  • Podcast

Milk To North Kerry Is Like Oil To The Arabs

  • Summary

  • 'Milk to North Kerry is like Oil to the Arabs’, produced and narrated by Mary Lavery Carrig, tells the story of the early days of Kerry Co-Op, a company established in North Kerry 50 years ago, laying roots for the multinational global giant we know today as Kerry PLC.

    Interviewees are Billy Keane, Eamon Barry, Hugh Friel, Denis Brosnan, Tom O’Connor, Pat Golden and Tom O’Sullivan. They all recall, first-hand, those exciting, formative and busy days, 50 years ago.

    This program offers fascinating insight into the dairy farming world of North Kerry 50 years ago and the series of events which occurred to bring about the formation of Kerry Co-Op, with seismic implications for the future. This is a story about community, perseverance, self-belief, empowerment, ambition and a drive to succeed, when dairy farmers and businessmen combined to realise a dream.

    Mary Lavery Carrig set out to find the human face of Kerry Co-Op 50 years ago and in this documentary, she brings that human face of Kerry Co-op to you, the listener.

    CREDITS
    Music: Matt Griffin
    Editor: Cian McGrath
    Studio: Pat Donegan
    Producer: Mary Lavery Carrig
    Narrator: Mary Lavery Carrig

    Thank you to Kerry Dairy Ireland for the use of the Jan 1974 Board of Directors photograph.

    'Milk to North Kerry is like Oil to the Arabs', was made possible due to the support received from Coimisiún na Meán, funded through the television licence fee.

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