9.00am Registration
9.30am Official welcome Matt Dempsey, Editor, Irish Farmers Journal
9.35am Official opening Helen Brophy, CEO, National Dairy Council
Chair: Maura Walsh, IRD Duhallow
SESSION 1: GETTING THE BALANCE RIGHT
9.50am Communicating effectively in these turbulent times – Lyn Sykes Lyn is a world-renowned authority on farm family succession planning
11.00am Break
11.15am What farm families need to know about tax and finance – Declan McEvoy AITI, TEP, Senior Tax Planning Consultant with IFAC Accountants
11.45am Update on spouses’ partnerships, PRSI and pensions for farm women – Mary Sherry, Chair of IFA’s Farm Family and Social Affairs Committee
12.00pm Do you qualify? Making the most of your entitlements – Joseph McCrohan, Rural Development Officer with South Kerry Development Partnership
12.20pm Improve your personal wellbeing, mind over matter – Fiona Hoban, Counsellor and Communications Consultant
1.00pm Lunch
SESSION 2: HEALTH AND WELLBEING
2.00pm Getting ahead for Christmas – Neven Maguire shares his secrets. Cookery demonstration and question and answer session
3.15pm Osteoporosis: What women and men need to know – Michele O’Brien of the Irish Osteoporosis Society
SESSION 3: GENDER ON THE FARM: THE QUIET REVOLUTION?
3.45pm This is a time of unprecedented opportunity, progress and personal freedom for women, including farming women. But it can also be a time of great opportunity for farming women to overcome remaining challenges and make further gains for themselves, their children and, perhaps most importantly, for the future flourishing of Irish family farming. Dr Maureen Gaffney is a well-known psychologist, broadcaster and writer
5.00pm Close