Sandwiched between tractor trailer-mounted scenes of border checkpoints featuring Irish customs officers, smugglers and US President Donald Trump, passengers on the Lakeland Dairies float threw sweets at the populace assembled outside the co-op’s head office in Killashandra, Co Cavan, during the town’s St Patrick’s Day parade. And good ones at that – Quality Street. The Dealer has not seen such extravagance since the heyday of the boom. Lakeland appears to have cash left in its coffers after gobbling up LacPatrick.

Read more

LacPatrick-Lakeland merger approved

'Best possible milk price' for Lakeland-LacPatrick suppliers

Long read: what the Lakeland-LacPatrick merger means for farmers