Joe Sweeney has been elected as new Chairperson of the county Donegal branch of the Irish Farmers’ Association.
Sweeney succeeds Brendan McLaughlin, who held the position for four years.
A native of Dunfanaghy, Sweeney defeated Peter Lynch, who was the outgoing Vice-Chairman at the AGM on Tuesday night.
Elsewhere, Tina McLaughlin has been elected as the new Assistant Secretary while Frank McClean will be the new Vice-Chairman.
A number of elections also took place to represent Donegal on a variety of IFA national commodity committees.
Neville Myles is the new Livestock representative, George Starritt will represent Donegal on the Animal Health committee, Hugh Kelly will be on the grain committee, Andrew McShea will be Donegal’s farm business representative and Donald Logue will be on the national potato committee.
