{"id":258339,"date":"2026-01-22T17:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:45:14","slug":"how-this-cork-woman-stepped-up-to-help-run-the-120-cow-family-farm-after-her-brothers-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258339\/","title":{"rendered":"How this Cork woman stepped up to help run the 120-cow family farm after her brother\u2019s passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">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\u2019s death, balancing her full-time agri-food job with modernising the farm through technology\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aoife Dullea with her parents Charles and Aileen on their dairy farm in County Cork. Photos by Denis Boyle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b632b475-d665-401e-b577-9a817ea7f6a2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Aoife Dullea with her parents Charles and Aileen on their dairy farm in County Cork. Photos by Denis Boyle<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Taking over the family farm was never part of Aoife Dullea\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aoife Dullea farms with her parents and partner near Clonakilty. Originally not planning to take on the family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,52079,9609,61,60],"class_list":["post-258339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-catherina-cunnane","tag-dairy-farm-profiles","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}