How four Dublin girls beat their country cousins to take top farming prize

Emily Browne, Tara Frehill, Shauna Jager and Eithne Murray from Our Lady’s School, Terenure. Picture: Finbarr O'Rourke.

Margaret Donnelly

The winners of the Certified Irish Angus Beef schools competition was won this year by a Dublin school.

The group defied the odds emerging as clear winners in spite of being based in an urban setting, with no farming background or previous farming experience.