Blonde bombshells - the award winning cows from a Ballinalee farm

John Lynch is making his mark with the Ballinascraw blondes

John Lynch and his son, Stephen with one of the Blonde d'Aquitaine cows in the herd.

Martin Ryan

While small can be beautiful, it is also very successful when applied to the Blonde d'Aquitaine breed on the farm of John Lynch where a small herd of Blonde cows are to be found mingling among a much larger mixed commercial herd of continentals in Co Longford.

Mention the Ballinascraw herd to anyone in the world of pedigree beef breeding and the string of National Championship awards won by the Blondes from the Ballinalee farm in successive years immediately springs to mind.