The daughter of one of Ireland’s most revered farm leaders, the late T.J. Maher from Boherlahan, has said her father would be so proud today of the achievements of the livestock aid agency Bóthar.
Speaking as the organisation was afforded a Civic Reception by Limerick City Council to mark its 21st anniversary, Julianne Maher said that the organisation’s continued success would have exceeded all his expectations.
The former MEP and farmer who died 10 years ago helped to co-found Bóthar in 1991 with recently retired CEO of the organisation Peter Ireton as an intended one-off gesture by the local farming community to airlift 20 Irish in-calf dairy heifers to an impoverished Ugandan community.
It has since gone on to become one of Ireland’s best known charity organisations, lifting over 6,000 families across the developing world out of destitution annually with livestock donations.
