Westmeath girls’ idea a hit with farmers
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The GreenYard team from Our Lady’s Bower came up with the ‘Rebag’ idea. Pictured at the County Enterprise Awards, where ‘Rebag’ emerged as the senior winner were, from left, Trina Murray, LEO Westmeath; Christine Charlton, head of Enterprise, LEO Westmeath; An Cathaoirleach Cllr Aoife Davitt; students Amy Reynolds, Hannah O’Connor and Ruby Duane, Our Lady’s Bower; Barry Kehoe, chief executive, WCC; and Catriona Duffy, business advisor, LEO Westmeath. William QuainImage 2 of 2
A simple but very clever invention by a team of Westmeath students could prove a solution to an annoying conundrum on Irish farms - that of how to store large agri bags for reuse.
The ‘GreenYard’ team, Amy Reynolds, Hannah O’Connor and Ruby Duane, from Our Lady’s Bower, have designed ‘Rebag’, an iron frame on which the bags can be stacked, one inside the other.
It is useful for storing the sort of bags used to supply feed, fertiliser and turf, which can have many practical reuses, but which are difficult to store neatly. The invention is proving popular in the farming community, at which it was originally targeted, but is also becoming popular further afield.
The girls will be representing Westmeath in the National Student Entrepreneur Finals on May 7 after having won the Westmeath section of the competition recently.
Their product is available to order on https://www.instagram.com/greenyard_0/