Fermanagh in 2002: Men drive 4,000 miles with aid
SIX Fermanagh Ulsterbus drivers took time out of their personal holidays to drive 4,000 miles and deliver aid to deprived children in Romania.
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SIX Fermanagh Ulsterbus drivers took time out of their personal holidays to drive 4,000 miles and deliver aid to deprived children in Romania.
Background? It stems from exactly the same as most men and woman in farming today ... I was born into it. My father, John, was a mountain farmer in the townland of Meencraig, in the north of Ireland, where I grew up with my siblings and I worked the farm after school. My father in those days ran a mixture of cattle and sheep and although rearing a large family of 16, I was the only one to follow him into farming. I worked alongside him until I was offered a job at a local farm with B Mullan and Sons, in 1977, before I became a full time self-employed freelancer in 1995 contracted to b...