Noel McPartland - Tommy Talks: Episode 3
Description
This week's guest is a previous winner of the Leitrim Person of the Year award, hailing from Drumshanbo Noel McPartland has played a large part in the development of the food hub from the premises he spend decades working with Bo Peep Jams and Lairds Foods.
They chat about his experience of growing up in rural Ireland, making inroads in the food export in the middle east, far east and North America and dealing with the wonders of the communication technology in the 1970's and 1980's.
Noel discusses his experience of being drafted into the US Army and almost getting dragged into the Cuban Missile Crisis a matter of weeks before his scheduled discharge after his two years of service.
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