{"id":304806,"date":"2026-02-18T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304806\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:12:12","slug":"end-of-an-era-as-kilkenny-man-retires-from-business-after-almost-half-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304806\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era as Kilkenny man retires from business after almost half a century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Brothers Ltd in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/section\/670\/callan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Callan<\/a> has marked the retirement of company stalwart Pat Murphy, who has given an incredible 47 years of &#8216;loyal and dedicated service&#8217; to the business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pat joined us in Windgap back in 1978 and from there he was the first operator of our existing mill in Callan,&#8221; the company posted to social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout the years, he\u2019s embraced every change and new technology with ease, especially mastering the mill cuber, where his skill and commitment have been second to none.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/news\/local-news\/2016479\/breaking-fresh-garda-search-operation-for-missing-kilkenny-woman-jo-jo-dullard-begins.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">READ NEXT:\u00a0 Fresh garda search operation for missing Kilkenny woman Jo Jo Dullard begins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Behind the scenes, Pat has played a vital role in ensuring the smooth delivery of feed across our customer base. As a company, we\u2019re saying goodbye to not just a hardworking colleague, but a true friend whose expertise and good humour will be deeply missed,&#8221; they continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wishing Pat the very best of health and happiness in his well-earned retirement!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/section\/185\/business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOR MORE LOCAL BUSINESS NEWS, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett Brothers Ltd in Callan has marked the retirement of company stalwart Pat Murphy, who has given an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,132216,61,60,12969],"class_list":["post-304806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-callan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}