Ear To The Ground appearance for local pharmacist/farmer

BUSY WOMAN: How Emma Cotter from Castlelyons manages to combine running a busy farm with a successful career as a pharmacist is dealt with on this Thursday's Ear To The Ground programme on RTE. (John Ahern)

A mastery of multi-tasking and effective time management has resulted in Emma Cotter being able to combine two very demanding careers – as a friendly locum pharmacist who works in Fermoy and that of a dairy/tillage farmer. 

Ear To The Ground researchers were so interested in finding how 28-year-old Emma excels in both fields that they dispatched a production crew to her home in Castlelyons.

The programme, which is scheduled to go out on this Thursday evening (1st February), focuses on careers.

RTE’s top-rated programme caught up with Emma at last year’s ploughing championships and were determined to find out the secret of her success.

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