LONDON (Alliance News) – Greencore Group PLC on Tuesday said it has appointed Kevin O’Malley as a non-executive director effective immediately.

The FTSE 250-listed convenience food businesssaid O’Malley was most recently the US Ambassador to Ireland until January 2017.

O’Malley co-founded the O’Malley Law Firm in 1989, which later merged with St Louis-based law firm Greensfelder, Hemker and Gale PC, where he spent 11 years as partner.

“We are very pleased that Kevin is joining the board. Kevin brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to support the group’s overall growth and in particular our vision to build a large scale, high performing convenience food business in North America,” Chairman Gary Kennedy said in a statement.

St. Patrick’s Day conjures images of shamrocks, leprechauns, and “wearing o’ the green”; symbols instantly familiar to our Western cultural and visual vocabularies. Such iconography is fairly modern; however, and in 1780 St. Patrick’s Day in the American colonies was anything but verdant.

One of the bleakest in contemporary memory, the winter of 1779-1780 was especially brutal. Not only intolerably cold with twenty-eight documented snowfalls 1, the Continental Army was in sore shape. Provisions were derisory, while the perpetual lack of horses inhibited the movement of artillery. The colonial economy was also on the verge of ruin: American paper currency was considered rubbish, and the decline in foreign trade threatened to upend an already-fragile mercantile system. Both civilian and soldier alike were malnourished and war-weary, and Washington’s troops remained unpaid and meagerly clothed. Arguably worse, Congress had depleted all its resources, even the support pledged by France.

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