Galway Bay fm newsroom - Dunmore native Mona O’Donoghue-Concannon has scooped the 2018 Corrib Oil - Women in Farming Award at the National Ploughing Championships.
Mona runs a dairy, beef and suckler farm with her husband, brother and 14-year-old daughter in Cortoon in Tuam
She received a Galway Crystal engraved plate along with €1,000.
The dairy enterprise comprises of sixty Shorthorn, Friesian and Montbéliarde cows, while Shorthorns dominate the sixty-cow-beef herd.
Mona’s brother came to live with her when he sustained a brain injury following the sudden passing of their mother in 2008.
He became a farm partner in 2010 and today, he works alongside his brother-in-law to milk the dairy herd.
Mona is very excited at winning this title for Galway beating entries from nineteen other counties.
