2022 Nuffield Ireland Scholars, Pat Collins, Lance Woods, Pippa Hackett, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Aoife Feeney and David Dolan Finding Common Ground Supported by our Premium Investor FBD Trust The event was opened by Minister of…
2022 Nuffield Ireland Scholars, Pat Collins, Lance Woods, Pippa Hackett, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Aoife Feeney and David Dolan
Finding Common Ground
Supported by our Premium Investor FBD Trust
The event was opened by Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Pippa Hackett.
Friday 10th November 2023
9.15h to 16.45h, followed by banquet at 19.00h
Mount Wolseley Hotel, Tullow, Co. Carlow
Our 2022 Scholars Pat Collins, David Dolan, Aoife Feeney and Lance Woods delivered their reports after completion of their two-year research and travel programmes.
Attendees heard updates from our 2023 Scholars Bryan Daniels, Margaret Edgill, David Fennelly, Tommy Murray, Liagh Whelehan and Gillian Willis.
We met for the first time our four newly recruited 2024 Scholars.
We welcomed our keynote speaker Amy Jackson, Nuffield UK 2012 Scholar and Director of Oxtale, Issues and Crisis Management Consultant. Amy is a researcher in public attitudes towards farming and challenged us on the theme of Finding Common Ground.
Early this year, we sadly and prematurely lost our pioneering Scholar Padraig Walshe who died suddenly in February. We paid tribute to Padraig and his legacy, with the first Padraig Walshe Award for best returning Nuffield Ireland Scholar presentation. The first scholar to be awarded this prestigious award was Lance Woods. Padraig’s powerful legacy of agricultural leadership was the topic of a fireside chat involving two of his friends Matt Ryan and Matt O’Keeffe.
After the Conference, we hosted our annual Nuffield banquet, where Scholars and Alumni networked with Investor represetatives and other agri-food stakeholders.
Download Full 2023 Nuffield Conference programme – click here
Watch video presentations from 2022 Nuffield Scholars who presented their reports at the 2023 conference.
Watch video of Fireside Chat: Padraig Walsh’s powerful legacy of agricultural leadership involving two of his friends Matt Ryan and Matt O’Keeffe.
Nuffield Ireland Conference 2023 – Gallery
2022 Nuffield Scholars Pat Collins, Joe Leonard (Chairperson Nuffield Ireland), Aoife Feeney, David Dolan and Lance Woods
Nuffield Ireland Conference 2023 – Joe Leonard, Chairperson Nuffield Ireland; Pippa Hackett, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Amy Jackson, 2012 Nuffield UK Scholar, Director Oxtale.
Pippa Hackett, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine giving the opening address at the Nuffield Conference 2023
Pat Collins, 2022 Nuffield Scholar
David Dolan, 2022 Nuffield Scholar
2022 Nuffield Scholars, Pat Collins and David Dolan in discussion with Grainne Dwyer, 1999 Nuffield Scholar
Amy Jackson, Nuffield UK Scholar, Director Oxtale, Issues and Crisis Management Consultant – Keynote Speaker at Nuffield Ireland Conference 2023
2022 Nuffield Scholar Aoife Feeney
2022 Nuffield Scholar, Lance Woods
2022 Nuffield Scholars Lance Woods and Aoife Feeney in discussion chaired by Mike Brady, 2004 Nuffield Scholar
Karol Kissane, 2018 Nuffield Scholar during Q&A at Nuffield Conference 2023
Fireside Chat: Padraig Walshe’s Legacy with Matt O’Keeffe and Matt Ryan
Presentation of Padraig Walshe Award to Lance Woods. Pictured L-R Ella Walshe, Pat Walshe, Lance Woods, 2022 Nuffield Scholar and Joe Leonard, Chairperson Nuffield Ireland
Lance Woods, 2022 Nuffield Scholar and winner of first Padraig Walshe Award. Sculpture Queen Maebh’s Bull by artist Ronan Halpin
2023 Nuffield Scholars, Bryan Daniels, Liagh Whelehan, Gillian Willis, David Fennelly, Margaret Edgill and Thomas Murray
2024 Nuffield Ireland Scholars, Niall Hurson, John Keane, Molly Garvey, Nick Cotter and Michael Martin
