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Tue 12 Dec 2009Kilkenny farmer John Bryan sweeps to IFA election victory
THERE WERE jubilant scenes at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin last night when the Irish Farmers’ Association elected its first ever Kilkennyman, John Bryan (51), as its president.
The former garda who pounded the beat around Dublin’s Pearse Street from 1977 to 1980 before his aunt left him a farm and he returned to his native Inistioge, had a decisive victory over his two rivals for the post.
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