Tirlán hosted an excellent site visit to the Ballyragget Milk Processing Plant for @NuffieldInt@NuffieldIreland Triennial tour. Excellent insights by @Pat_O_Keeffe and Tomas Ryan.
Great to again meet the great @davidmcw at the @NuffieldIreland Triennial conference. He loved the ‘cattle tags’ as lanyards from @CormacTagging . As always he captivated the audience.
The Nuffield Ireland triennial summit took place last Friday 22 May in Killashee Hotel, Co Kildare. UCD graduate and 2024 Nuffield Scholar, Niall Hurson was this weeks Young Stock Podcast guest with @sarahmcintosh46 in the @farmersjournal
Niall is a suckler farmer from Co Monaghan and chats to Sarah about his career pathway from graduating from @ucddublin with an animal science degree in 2020 to working for leading media outlets, which includes the Irish Farmers Journal, the Farming Independent and RTÉ’s Ear to the Ground.
https://t.co/byqr1hVWfJ
💃 The Triennial concluded with a fantastic farewell dinner & dancing at Cork’s @TheMaryborough Hotel, celebrating an unforgettable week of learning, reconnection & friendship.
🙏🏻Huge thank you to our guests, sponsors & organising committee for making #Nuffield2026 a success!
☀️ Our final #Nuffield2026#Triennial day, Day 8, and we finished on a high — in record-breaking heat across Cork and East Waterford!
A (long!) thread 🧵:
🏰The tour ended at @LismoreCastle in East Waterford, the Duke of Devonshire’s Irish residence, where heritage, tourism and sustainable land management come together on a historic estate overlooking the River Blackwater.
☀️ Day 7 of the #Nuffield2026 Triennial brought another packed day of learning across Cork — with sunshine still on our side!
Our adventures of the day: a thread 🧵
🦪 Group 3 visited @SouthernMilling in Cork Harbour to learn about Ireland’s feed sector and the @BordIascMhara Aquaculture Remote Classroom (ARC) finishing with an Irish oyster tasting led by oyster sommelier Sarah Browne @heyoysome