Aoife Dullea farms with her parents and partner near Clonakilty. Originally not planning to take on the family farm, she stepped in after her brother’s death, balancing her full-time agri-food job with modernising the farm through technology
Aoife Dullea with her parents Charles and Aileen on their dairy farm in County Cork. Photos by Denis Boyle
Taking over the family farm was never part of Aoife Dullea’s original plan. That changed nearly two years ago, when her brother Darragh tragically lost his life in a road traffic collision at just 20 years of age.
Darragh had been studying agricultural mechanics at Salesian Agricultural College in Limerick, and it was always the intention that he would take on the family dairy farm in Cork in the summer of 2024.