The Certified Irish Angus Beef Competition

Congratulations to Transition Year students, Deirdre O’Neill, Aoife Whelton, Amy McCarthy and Lucy Collins, who have successfully been selected to go forward to the Certified Irish Angus Schools Competition Exhibition at Croke Park on 1st April 2022.

Well done Girls

Cait O Mahony reflects on her involvement in the Certified Irish Angus Beef Competition

The Certified Irish Angus Beef Competition was definitely a highlight of the term, and ended up being a big part of this term. The Certified Irish Angus Beef Competition is a very exciting competition, where TY students try to change farming methods or raise awareness on new farming methods, to try and win 5 Aberdeen Angus calves. Our school has had great success in the past, with Aoife Dullea, Clionadh Condon, Laura Clancy and Meadhbh Sexton being the 2014 winners, in the competition’s first year. My group for this competition, Sinéad Kingston, MaryRose Keohane, Nicole Sweetnam and I, had to enter a video with our ideas on raising Angus calves, by the 19th of November 2021. It took us a couple days to film the video at school, and a couple more to edit it, but it was a great experience, and was made even better when we realised we got through to the next round. We received an email from William Delaney, from the Certified Irish Angus Beef Competition on the 9th of December congratulating us on getting through to the next round, which were interviews with representatives from the Kepak group, ABP group and the Certified Irish Angus Producer Group, at the Great South Court Hotel in Co. Limerick on the 18th of January.