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A Fermanagh student is the new treasurer of
the Harper Ireland Committee which has
held its annual dinner. Harper Ireland is the
organisation representing the interests of all
Irish students at the Harper Adams
University College in Shropshire. John
Carson, a HND Agriculture student from
Garrison, is the new treasurer of the
committee. He was among other students
from Northern Ireland and the Republic who
attended the annual dinner in the Tern Hill
Hall Hotel, Shropshire.The association holds its annual dinner which marks the changeover between
their old and new committee and organises social functions and events
throughout the year. The 2002 dinner marked the launch of the Harper Ireland
web-site which can now be found online at
www.harper-adams.ac.uk/v3/harperireland/ireland_home.htm
These students are currently studying courses in agriculture, agri-food
marketing, animal health and welfare, business, engineering and design,
land, countryside and environment and leisure and landscape courses. The
guest speaker was Mr. John McAllister, Deputy President of the YFCU who
spoke of the importance of the organisation and Mairead McGuinness, from
Farming Independent who shared her observations of the farming industry.
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