On Saturday 18th January 2025, Aurivo were delighted to support again the Aurivo Northwest Macra Kings & Queens event which took place at Radisson Hotel & Spa Sligo. Aurivo team members Caroline Miller-Price, Brand Development& Marketing Manager – Aurivo Agribusiness & Philip Hamilton, Marketing Executive – Aurivo Consumer Foods were thrilled to join the judging panel along with former Rose of Tralee Escort of the Year/Radio & TV personality/Macra Member Jamie Flannery from Kerry and MEP Maria Walsh. The day was packed with activity as the 24 Kings and Queens Contestants were challenged with ‘The Cube’ at the Garavogue Bar Sligo and then later in the evening interviewed live on stage by MC for the evening, Dave Duke.
After careful deliberation, the judges named Sinead O’Reilly, Leitrim (via Cavan) Queen and Tom Devereux from Wexford as the overall King and Queen of the evening. Congratulations to all contestants for taking part and for representing their local Macra Club and their counties.
- Queen - Sinead O' Reilly - Leitrim
- King - Tom Devereux -Wexford
2nd Place
- Queen - Jessica Wilson - Donegal
- King - Conor McEneaney- Louth
3rd Place
- Queen - Zara Long – Cork
- King - Matthew Keegan - Longford
Pictured: Tom Devereux (Wexford), Philip Hamilton (Aurivo) & Sinead O'Reilly (Leitrim)
The Aurivo Macra Silage Competition Winners 2025 were also announced on the evening as follows:
- 1st Sarah Wilson – Donegal
- 2nd Andrew Stafford – Cavan
- 3rd Andrew Mc Menamin – Donegal
Samples were tested by Aurivo's Lab Team and winners selected on the basis of quality, intake potential and indicators of fermentation. Philip Hamilton, Marketing Executive at Aurivo presented the winners with their prizes on Saturday at the 2025 Aurivo Northwest Macra Kings & Queens event on Saturday evening.
The Macra community is very much a part our community at Aurivo. Macra’s members visit our Homeland stores, buy and sell at Aurivo Livestock Marts, use the Nutrias range of feed, minerals and milk replacers, and are loyal consumers of the Connacht Gold, Donegal Creameries, Organic for Us and For Goodness Shakes brands. Macra members are suppliers of milk to Aurivo, which in turn provides top quality milk and butter for our communities across the northwest, across the country and indeed across the world, with over half a billion litres of milk from our 1,000 milk suppliers, processed at our liquid milk site in Killygordan Co Donegal and Dairy Ingredients site in Ballagahderreen in Co Roscommon.
At Aurivo, we strive to support the communities in which our teams live and work and we are delighted to be able to support Macra Northwest, who offer an inclusive environment for sharing of knowledge, friendship and promoting rural Ireland as a great place to live and work.
Pictured: 2nd Place Winners - Jessica Wilson (Donegal) & Conor McEneaney (Louth)
Pictured: 3rd Place Winners - Zara Long (Cork) & Matthew Keegan (Longford)
Pictured: Maria Walsh (MEP), Tom Devereux - Aurivo Northwest King 2025, Philip Hamilton (Aurivo), Sinead O'Reilly - Aurivo Northwest Queen 2025, Jamie Flannery & Robert Lally (VP Macra Northwest)
Pictured: Caroline Millar-Price (Aurivo), Jamie Flannery & Maria Walsh - Judges at the Day Activity at the Garavogue Sligo.
