Farm safety and jobs in Limerick
Senator Byrne marked farm safety week, sympathised with a farming family bereaved in Galway, and also welcomed new jobs being brought to Limerick.
This week is farm safety week. I offer my sympathies to the family of the farmer who died in Galway yesterday. Some 24 farmers died last year in farm accidents. My colleague, Senator Conway, put a fine document about farm safety together in the Seanad Public Consultation Committee. We need to keep it to the forefront of our minds.
I will be positive today. WP Engine is bringing jobs to Limerick. It is having a recruitment day in Flannery's Bar in Limerick today and Slattery's Bar in Dublin on 19 July. Those are all high-end jobs. I encourage people who are interested in recruitment in the mid-west to visit these jobs fairs because quite a number of jobs are on offer. On a positive note, last weekend was very good for sport in Limerick. Ciara Neville and her team mates won a silver in the World U20 Championships in Athletics. Niall Herlihy came first in the Irish Rowing Championships. He came from Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh, where I am chairperson of the board of management. I wish him all the best. Castleconnell Boat Club won three pots, five silver medals and three bronze medals in championship rowing, and eight gold medals in non-championship rowing. The hurlers beat Kilkenny last weekend and go on to the semi-final at the end of July, against Cork. I know the Leader is from Cork and I am sure we will meet on the day in Croke Park. Sport is a positive thing to be involved in, with the friendships and camaraderie that people have through sport, particularly team sports.