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By John Bromley Despite now supplying more than 50 different markets around the world Aurivo Co-operative Society remains “very committed to being rooted here in the north west”, its CEO Aaron Forde has said. In the course of an interview this week with the Sligo Weekender, Mr Forde spoke about: • The tough times being […]

Tweets led to the resignation of the chairman of a state board earlier this year

Tweets led to the resignation of the chairman of a state board earlier this year

ALMOST a year after Rose Hynes' tenure concluded, there is still no chairperson of the board of Shannon Group, but a shortlist for the position has been finalised.

Limericks Live 95 Search By Live95 News Team The position has remained vacant for nine months since Rose Hynes stood down.  Transport Minister Eamon Ryan appointed the former Ornua Chairman Aaron Forde in February but the appointment was withdrawn within hours after Forde was revealed to have tweeted controversial comments about travellers.  Mayor of Limerick Michael Collins says with the announcment this week that Aer Lingus is to close its base at Shannon, its vital ...

Campaign to find chair as board shy of gender target Share THE position of chair of Shannon Group is to be advertised once more, following February’s fiasco when a candidate was announced and then stepped down within hours. Aaron Forde had been announced as the appointee, before the emergence of several offensive tweets by the former head of agri business Aurivo emerged. There had been some uncertainty about what would happen next, but an email to Clare TD Joe Carey from Transport Minister E...

SHARING OPTIONS: A significant bounce in powder and butter sales helped reinforce western-based Aurivo’s financial results for 2020. Aurivo’s dairy ingredients business is mainly made up of butter and powder sales. Aurivo produces a lot of enriched powders, which essentially are dried milk with the fat percentage increased with the addition of varying levels of vegetable oil. Aurivo sell this product in Africa, which is a growing market. Once it lands...

Aaron Forde: derogatory tweets about Travelling community Surprise has been expressed in government circles that a thorough trawl of Aaron Forde‘s social media wasn’t carried out before his name was proposed to Eamon Ryan for the position of chairman of Shannon Group. The Minister for Transport was forced to withdraw Forde‘s nomination just hours after it was announced last Tuesday, when a number of derogatory tweets he had written about the Travelling community and social welfare recipie...