Patrick Lydon

Patrick Lydon is a native of Boston who arrived in Ireland as a student. Having travelled around the countryside he founded a community for people with learning disabilities in Wexford. After many years of providing non-profit labour, he came to Callan, where he worked with 80 people who had various disabilities. Ballytobin is a farm-based complex and in recent times the great work has continued with the purchase of the former workhouse building in Callan.