‘I will always be a champion of farmers and their needs and issues’ - Margaret Ritchie
Peer reflects on the role of farming in her life
If there is any group in Northern Ireland society today who deserves recognition for overcoming what’s been a challenging year to say the least, it’s our farmers.
That’s according to someone who has long championed their needs and issues, in all aspects of her wide-ranging political life - Margaret Ritchie.
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Hide AdThe former SDLP leader and present peer at the House of Lords - she received a nonaffiliated peerage in Theresa May’s resignation honours list last year - stressed that she wanted to “commend them all” for how they have overcome “very, very difficult circumstances”.