Maire Ahern McCarthy is married to Brian and they have three children.

Living in Innishannon Co. Cork, she is a native of Kilbrittain in West Cork.  They have a dairy and beef enterprise, supplying milk to Bandon Co-op.

Maire is a Qualified Financial Adviser and has completed a Diploma in Food Business and Corporate Governance in UCC.

Maire is very interested in current affairs and enjoys reading, walking & farming in her spare time.

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He is also closely involved in the family beef farm in Co. Limerick, finishing around 200 cattle per year. These are mainly purchased as weanlings and slaughtered as steers at around 24 months of age.

Joe graduated with a first class honours degree in Agricultural Science from University College Dublin in 2002, and has previously worked as a beef nutrition advisor and in management in the beef processing industry.
Joe’s study topic on “Enabling Ireland to become the leading producer of quality beef from the dairy herd” is of particular interest because Ireland’s national dairy herd was expanding rapidly after the end of milk quotas. Joe studied best-practice internationally in rearing, production, processing and marketing of beef from the dairy herd. He visited New Zealand and Australia, as well as the UK and Continental Europe and Russia on his study topic.

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John is married to Marguerite and is farming in a Milk Production Partnership with his parents on their home farm. They farm 120 ha and calve 190 cows between Autumn and Spring herds. He graduated from CIT and Clonakilty Agricultural College with a Higher Certificate in Science in Agriculture in 2005, and has completed work experience in both New Zealand and the UK. John was appointed to the Teagasc Authority by the Minister for Agriculture in 2018, he is an active Macra na Feirme member and was FBD Young Farmer of the Year 2013.

John travelled to New Zealand, Australia and Denmark for his study topic and participated in the ‘Brazil GFP’ which travelled to France, UK, USA (Washington DC & California), Mexico, Brazil and New Zealand.

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Maeve is a 2015 Scholar, and deferred her GFP and other travel for a year, and completed her Nuffield programme with the 2016 scholars.
Maeve attained a BSc in Land Management Agriculture from Waterford Institute of Technology in 2012. She previously spent 18 months working on a 1,300 cow dairy farm in New Zealand. Her experience in New Zealand gave rise to the genesis of her solution, the ‘Inspect 4 turn over crate’.

It is as a result of her experiences to date that Maeve decided on her Nuffield topic ‘To Investigate Lameness in Dairy Cows’.

Reducing Lameness in Dairy Cows

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While trying to obtain finance for his start-up in 2013 Kevin encountered major barriers as he had no collateral and was very inexperienced. He was declined finance nine times before eventually obtaining a sanction on the tenth attempt.  It was because of his difficulty in obtaining funding that he chose his topic, ‘Access To Finance, The Biggest Challenge In Converting The Intangible Into Tangible’.

As part of his scholarship Kevin travelled to USA, UK, France, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium, Kenya and South Africa.

Access To Finance, The Biggest Challenge In Converting The Intangible Into Tangible

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Aidan is an officer of The Limerick Executive of  the Irish Farmers Association and represents the IFA on the national council of Macra Na Feirme. He is also the chairman of Ballyhoura Local Development Company. and a company secretary of Sli Eile Social Farm Programme.

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Brian’s study topic was: “Speaking up for Agriculture – Protecting Farming’s Social License’. Brian has become increasingly aware and concerned in the widening gap between the Irish general public and those involved in the agricultural industry. Agriculture is Ireland’s largest indigenous industry and it contributes hugely to the economic and social well-being of the Irish state.

Brian feels that we are not effectively communicating this message to the general public, he feels that farmers and those involved in the sector are its best spokespeople. We need to work harder to develop an understanding of our industry across all areas of society. By doing so, Brian believes that Irish Agriculture will be in a stronger position to push through its Harvest 2020 targets and manage any controversies or opponents that might arise in the future.

Brian is Deputy President of IFA (Irish Farmers’ Association), taking up the role in January 2020. Previously, he was Chairman of Kildare / West Wicklow IFA . He is a former Board member of Nuffield Ireland, being the nominee of the Founding Sponsors.

Speaking up for Agriculture - Protecting Farming's Social License

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