Amii McKeever.
On Sunday morning last Rory McIlroy was just outside the medals in the men’s Olympic golf in Tokyo. This brought me back to Rio in 2016 and Rory’s decision not to travel to that year’s Olympic Games due to the Zika epidemic. Remember that? No? Here is a recap.
In 2015, the Zika virus swept through Brazil. According to our Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), the virus usually causes only a mild illness.
However, the mosquito-borne virus was linked with birth defects in babies (Microcephaly) in 2016. It was therefore declared a “public health emergency of International Concern that warranted a global response” by the World Health Organization (WHO). Eleven months later, this declaration ended and a major percentage of the world’s population forgot about Zika.
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L-R: Donal Santry, Shinagh chair; Minister McConalogue;
Christopher O’Sullivan;
Cormac O’Keeffe; Enda Buckley; John McNamara; and
Jason Hawkins
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue visited a “landmark project” dubbed the Farm Zero C – which aims to create a “world-first climate neutral dairy farm”.
The project is being run by Carbery Group and BiOrbic, and operates at Shinagh Farm in west Cork, a demonstrator farm, previously focused on demonstrating profitability and efficiency.
The farm is owned by the four west Cork co-ops and run in partnership with Teagasc.
With Farm Zero C having recently been awarded a €2million grant in prize money from Science Foundation Ireland’s Zero Emissions Challenge, work is now underway on hiring researchers, a project manager and a farm researcher for the project, Carbery group says.