Bandon duo vie for national Angus prize

Two students at St Brogan’s College in Bandon, Co Cork have been selected from hundreds of entries as finalists in the Certified Irish Angus Beef Schools Competition, and will be presented with five Angus calves at the Ploughing Championships in September 2016.

Mark Shorten, Enniskeane and Conor Lehane, Timoleague, will rear the calves through to slaughter, vying with pupils from four other schools for a national winner’s prize of €2,000 in 2018.

The Irish Angus Producer Group and its processor partners, ABP Food Group and Kepak Group, invited Transition Year students to take in this national competition, which offers a unique opportunity for Agricultural Science students, bringing the beef and dairy cattle module of the syllabus to life in a bottom-up, hands-on manner.