28.10.2011
Ireland historically is an agrarian society and it seems despite dressing the nation in bricks and mortar, the fact that the majority of the country is still grass green displays the importance of food and agriculture.
UCC has enjoyed a long, successful and ever expanding strategically important role in educating and training high calibre graduates as well as providing upskilling and continued educational courses for those already in the work force.
Pictured are attendees and speakers at a recent workshop on new product development for small and start-up food companies organised by the Food Industry Training Unit at UCC. Included are Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Prof. Alan Kelly; Prof. Gerald Fitzgerald; Dr. Maurice O'Sullivan; Ronan O'Farrell; Mary McCarthy-Buckley, Maura Conway and Angela Sheehan UCC/FITU; Garrett Dee, Enterprise Ireland; Dr. Susan Steele, Bord Iascaigh Mhara and Michael Walsh, Walsh Gourmet Foods.
For a copy of Manufacturing Irelands report on Food at UCC please click here
