FOUR Ogonnelloe secondary school students are “mooving” in the right direction to create a new mobile app that would reduce administrative work for farmers who may find it difficult to participate in a plethora of agri-environmental schemes.
Scariff Community College Transition Year students Conor Lynch, Laura Danaher, Cian Gavin and Aisling Murnane recently exhibited their prototype for a new Agri-Mentor mobile app at the 2025 Certified Irish Angus Schools Competition at Croke Park.
Aisling’s father Ger has a suckler beef enterprise with some Angus calves, Laura’s uncle and grandfather have a dairy farm, while Cian and Conor have grown up on a dairy farms in Ogonnelloe.
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East Clare correspondent, Dan Danaher is a journalism graduate of Rathmines and UL. He has won numerous awards for special investigations on health, justice, environment, and reports on news, agriculture, disability, mental health and community.