This festival would not be possible without the funding from Science Foundation Ireland, Monaghan County Council, Cavan County Council and Cavan Monaghan ETB. We would like to thank the following local industries who are sponsoring or collaborating on a number of the events: McAree Engineering, Ballinode, Monaghan; Leonard Engineering, Monaghan; CombiLift, Monaghan; IJM, Monaghan; McCaughey Foods, Monaghan; Lacpatrick, Monaghan Quinn Industrial Holdings DAC, Cavan; Lakeland Diaries, Cavan; Bindoo Windfarm, Cavan; Abbvie, Co.Sligo.
A number of organisations and people have provided free events as part of the festival, and we are very grateful for this generous contribution and in no particular order: To the SFI funded research centres – Adapt, iCrag, Amber and Confirm
- Local Authority Waters office Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin
- Teagasc
- SEAI, An Taisce (Eoin Heaney)
- Monaghan Education Centre
- Monaghan Institute
- Cavan Institute
- Monaghan Fire Brigade
- Cavan Civil Defence
- Monaghan Civil Defence
- Road Safety Authority
- Mart Horton, Rivers Trust
- Brian McDonald, National Federation Group Water Schemes
- Met Eireann
- Biodiversity Data Centre
- EPA, Monaghan County Council
- Centre for Plasmas Physics, Queens University
- Kelly Dwyer
- Fiona McGrane
- Jade Pollock
- Carrickmacross Techspace
- Inland Fisheries Ireland
And to the staff of both local authorities and CMETB who are a great dynamic bunch of individuals who work beyond the norm in putting together this festival!
And we hope we haven’t left anyone out, but if we have, sincere apologies...