Louth farm students encouraged to apply for John Feely scholarships

The John Feely Foundation has announced that applications are now being accepted for the four scholarships awarded by that body each year, and applicants from Louth are being urged to enter.

A sum of €1500 each is awarded to four students in Year One of an agricultural course at one of the following agricultural colleges: Clonakilty Kildalton, Pallaskenry, Gurteen, Mountbellew, Ballyhaise or who is studying an agriculture-related course in another Third Level institution.

Applications can be made by any ICMSA member who are required to give their own name, phone and membership numbers while nominating the student, as well as providing the student’s home address, the course the nominee is engaged upon, and the institution the nominee student is attending.

Nominations must be received at ICMSA Head Office by 5pm on Friday 14 November and the draw will be made at the AGM on the 28 November with the four successful applicants contacted by Head Office. 

The above picture shows the four winners of the 2024 John Feely Foundation Scholarships upon being presented with their individual cheques for €1500 at a reception held in ICMSA’s Limerick Head Office, John Feely House, on Feb 21. The photo shows from left, Tommy Ryan, Limerick, Lydia McGrath, Cork, Andrew Graham, Co Wexford, and Cian Common, Co Meath.

At the presentation,  ICMSA President, Denis Drennan, drew attention to the fact that the association is celebrating its 75th anniversary, and appealed to the young farming students to stay in contact with the organisation and to engage with their fellow farmers, through responsible groups who could analyse and help bring forward the solutions that would allow their own and future generations of Irish farmers to thrive. 

ICMSA and the John Feely Foundation say they are jointly committed to securing the continued engagement of young farmers with those groups who follow the guiding principle of John Feely: Keep working and bringing forward solutions to the problems of Ireland’s family dairy farms.