Mairead Lavery, journalist with Irish Country Living, is a graduate of the University of Limerick and Trinity College. She lives in Shanagolden, Co Limerick, with her husband Sean and has three adult children. She has represented IFA on the board of the national economic and social council. She is a former county chair of Limerick IFA and represented the county on the IFA executive council. Mairead is a former winner of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists National Journalist of the Year Award and won the national print category on two occasions. She also won the John Healy Award for Regional Journalism. She contributes weekly to Newstalk’s Sean Moncrieff Show and is a regular panellist on other radio and TV shows.