Over €80,000 has been allocated to 4 farm health, safety, and wellbeing projects in Galway.
€52,664 will go to FORUM Connemara CLG for their Farm Health, Safety and Skills training programme.
Mountbellew Agricultural College received €28,300 for 3 projects: Tractor safety for children, farm safety and supporting older farmers.
Nationally, 46 projects were awarded a total of €1.18 million, with over €250,000 going to the IFAs Farmer health checks programme.
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The funding, which was announced by the Minister for Agriculture, Martin Heydon, was delivered after an open call for applications earlier this year.
