Rickard_Deasy_(Farming_Campaigner)
Rickard Deasy (campaigner)
Irish activist
Rickard Joseph Gerard Deasy (13 March 1916 – 13 July 1999),[1] born in Terryglass, County Tipperary was a prominent farmers' rights campaigner in Ireland, Captain with the Irish army, and a member of the Labour Party. He was President of the National Farmers Association of Ireland between 1961 and 1967, and was the leader of a mass protest by Irish farmers in 1966.