Meath Macra Finalists

Meath Macra are very proud to announce their finalists for the following competitions:

Impromptu Public Speaking, Micheal Bennett.

Debating, Athboy Macra and North Meath Macra will be representing us in the next round of debating.

Bowling, Moynalty Macra.

A great night was had by all. Best of luck to those representing the county in the competitions. You will do us PROUD!

Micheal Bennett- Impromptu Public Speaking Finalist

Moynalty Macra- Bowling finalists 

North Meath Macra- Debating representatives in the finals

Eamon Cassells hosts Meath Macra Stock Judging workshop

Meath Macra Members who attended the workshop

On September 3rd, Meath Macra attended a Beef  Stock Judging workshop, to prepare for the county round of the competition in the coming weeks. The workshop was held by Eamon Cassells on his Farm in Athboy. Beef stock judged in the workshop were; Angus, Parthenaise, Herefords and Limousines. Meath Macra would like to thank all who attended, and especially Eamon Cassells for hosting the workshop. 

Meath Macra travelled down to Limerick

From left to right (standing)

Alan Beirne, Joanna Gargan, Micheal Bennett, Darren Dowdall, Dwane Lynch, Matthew Brady, Dermot Connolly, Sean Corrigan, Claire Gough, Adam Burke and Luna Orofiamma.

From Left to right (seated)

Siobhan Kearney, Sean Finan (Macra President), Ciaran Kearney and Orla Lenehan. 

Meath Macra travelled down to Limerick for County Officer training on the 28th of August. What a great weekend was had by all! We would like to congratulate Alan Beirne on his bronze award for County Treasurer and Darran Smyth on his silver award for County Chairperson for Social, Travel, and Sports. 

Alan Beirne and Sean Finan (Macra President) 

Darran Smyth and Sean Finan (Macra President)

Young Farmers' Trip to the West

John Biggins of McHale Engineering, front right, with Meath Macra's YFDG 

Mayo and the West were the destination on January 27th for a group of Meath Macra members as they set off to tour the McHale and Malone Engineering Works. The trip, organised by Meath Macra's Young Farmers' Development Group, also included members from Dublin and Sligo Macra na Feirme. 

Mike Malone of Malone Engineering, centre, with Meath Macra's YFDG

The first stop in the tour was Malone Engineering, where Mike Malone gave the assembled group an impressive and informative tour of the premises. Demonstrating the company's silage wagons, trailed mowers, 3 point linkage mowers, post drivers and log splitters, the tour offered the group a valued overview of the manufacturing machinery industry. 

The next destination was Mc Hale Engineering in Ballinrobe. Here John Biggins lead the group on a tour of the factory where they were able to see Fusion 2 balers on the production line. Watching as each one rolled off the line and undergoing  rigourous testing to ensure they were ready for sale. This was only one of three production lines, with square bale wrappers and round bale wrappers being produced and tested on the other two lines beside it. Secretary of the Young Farmers' Development Group, Nicholas Coyle described the tour as "a very educational insight into what it takes to put the machines we take for granted in fields to perform for us year in year out.'