Moorepark: home of healthy foods

Ray Ryan reports on expansion at Moorepark, a key location over 40 years in keeping our dairy industry competitive, now bidding to do the same in food research.

FEW Irish agri-research institutions are as well known to the general public as Moorepark; thousands drive past it every day in their cars on the Cork to Dublin road.

The neat blocks of buildings set in the rolling countryside north of Fermoy are regarded by many as the flagship of Teagasc research, having played an enormous role in the development of Irish agriculture, over 40 years. Moorepark earned a world wide reputation for the quality of its research work in dairying, and several foreign leaders have heaped praise on what its scientists have achieved.