Pictured at The Good Shepherd Centre Kilkenny are GSCK staff Vivian Brennan, Lanette McGuigan, Sean Buggy and Amy Lee picture: Patrick Browne
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26 Dec 2025
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26 Dec 2025
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Clodagh Forbes, AIB, AIB sponsored Best Work Placement Award Winners Sarah Cussen, Carrigaline, Co Cork and Katelyn Walsh, Piltown, Co Kilkenny and Prof Frank Buckley, Head of Agricultural Science and
The annual ‘Agricultural Science Post Graduation Celebration and Awards Ceremony’ at UCC saw honours for a Kilkenny student.
The awards took place on the evening of Friday, December 12, in glorious surroundings of the UCC’s NW Council room.
On the night they celebrated and paid tribute to the class of 2025, and recognised the outstanding academic achievement of a number of individual members of the class - including Piltown’s Katelyn Walsh.
She took home three awards - the ‘Munster Agricultural Society Sustainable Agriculture Award’ for the best student in 2nd year module ‘Sustainable Feed Production,’ and was presented with a silver medal plus €250.
Katelyn was also presented with the MSD ‘Bovilis #ProtectTheFuture Award’ to best student in 4th year module AG4009 - Bovine Health, Behaviour and Welfare.
Her third award of the night was the ‘AIB Best Work Placement Award’ for which she received a silver medal plus €250.
Congratulations to each of this year’s awards recipients and thanks to the award sponsors, including overall event sponsor FBD Trust.
In total 14 awards with a combined value of €7,750 were presented on the evening. Each award comprised a beautiful hand-crafted solid silver medal plus monetary prize.
The individual awards themselves reflect the breadth of opportunity within the industry as well as varied strengths and interests of students, as well as enabling Agricultural Science at UCC showcase its connectedness with individual stakeholders in the industry that it is proud to be associated with.
The eagerness of industry stakeholders to sponsor these prestigious awards recognises the quality and ambition the of Agricultural Science graduates and the bright future as industry leaders that lies ahead of them.
Sponsors: FBD Trust, Cork Grassland Services, Munster Agricultural Society, Southern Milling, Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, MSD Animal Health Ireland, FDC, Irish Farmers Journal, Allied Irish Banks, Fertiliser Association of Ireland, Teagasc.
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