Conor Holohan

Conor Holohan: Conor served one year as a co-opted IGA council member and is now elected
to the team for three years. He recently became programme director for the ‘Make the Moove’
rural mental health and support service, originally established by Macra. Previously Conor
worked as a senior grassland scientist at the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute in Northern
Ireland and also spent time working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a US-Ireland
Fulbright scholarship. He grew up on a suckler beef farm in Scotstown, Co. Monaghan and
completed a degree in agriculture at Dundalk Institute of Technology in 2015. Afterwards he
undertook a masters in Agricultural Innovation and Support at UCD/Teagasc before completing
a PhD in dairy and grassland science at UCD.