Teaching dairy farmer named Teagasc/FBD Student of the Year

Teagasc chairman Liam Herlihy, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD with Ellen Vaughan, the Teagasc/FBD Student of the Year for 2022. Picture: John Ohle Photography.

Dairy farmer and teacher Ellen Vaughan has been named as Teagasc/FBD Student of the Year for 2022.

The Meath native was honoured at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 9, for completing the Level 6 Distance Green Cert at Teagasc, Navan, County Meath – when she wasn’t working full-time as a home economics and Irish teacher and also working part-time on her family’s dairy farm.