Around the country in pictures this week

Good Counsel Secondary School in New Ross, Co Wexford, organised a tractor run to their graduation ball this year to raise funds for Chernobyl Children’s Trust, Mustard Seed Communities and Hope Cancer Support Centre. Pictured are students Gary Murphy and Jack Kennedy. \ Patrick Browne

Doreen Corridan, Munster AI, and dairy farmer Jim Murray, Birr, Co Offaly, body condition score some cows during the Arrabawn Co-op open day based on Farming Smarter, Not Harder at Gurteen College. \ Donal O’Leary

A general view of proceedings at the reseeding demonstration during the Arrabawn Co-op open day at Gurteen College. \ Donal O’Leary

Pictured at the annual Bantry Agricultural show were Bill and Scott O’Driscoll from Dunmanway, with their all-Ireland Suffolk ram champion. \ Denis Boyle

Jenny Cotter from Dripsey, Co Cork with her overall champion Simmental Dripsey Honey Heart and Jenny Ahern, judge, at Bantry Agri Show. \ Denis Boyle

Professor Alex Evans, Dean of Agriculture, UCD; Rachel Daly (Meath); Katie O’Callaghan (Cork); Andrew Doyle TD, Minister of State for Food, Forestry and Horticulture; Conor Casey (Tipperary); Padraig Curry (Kilkenny); and Professor Andrew J Deeks, president, UCD, at the the UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science conferring ceremony held at O’Reilly Hall, UCD, this week. \ Jason Clarke Photography