Aisling Meehan graduated from University of Limerick with an honours degree in Law and Accounting.  She trained in the Tax Department of one of Ireland’s top five law firms, William Fry graduating as a Solicitor and Tax Consultant (AITI).

She has also completed FETAC 180 hour Certificate in Farming and was awarded a level 5 FETAC certificate in Animal and Crop Production as well as a level 6 FETAC certificate in Farm Business.

She is solicitor to the leading national farming newspaper in Ireland, the Irish Farmers Journal.  She takes an active part in shaping agricultural legal and tax policy and regularly contributes to various legal, tax and business forums to include:

• Member of the Law Society Gazette Editorial Board.
• Member of the Advisory Board of Governors at Salesian Agricultural College and Farm.
• Member of the Executive Committee of Nuffield Ireland.
• Regular contributor of articles to the Farming Independent, Farmers Journal, the Farmers Handbook, Law Society Gazette and Ear to the Ground Magazine.
• Interviewed on farming matters on national television on “Ear to the Ground”, on national radio RTE 1 “Countrywide” and local radio Clare FM, KCLR and South East Radio.
• Regular Panelist on the Marian Finucane Show, a national radio programme on current affairs.
• Presentations & Seminars to Farming Discussion Groups and events organised by the Irish Farmers Association, Macra, Irish Grassland Association, Teagasc, The Law Society of Ireland and the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
• Contributor of articles and pro bono advice to charitable organisations including the ISPCA and Barretstown.
• Lecturing UCD Bachelor of Agricultural Science Degree Students.
• Lecturing students in the Law Society of Ireland.
• Presented a CPD Vodcast for the Law Society of Ireland on the topic of Milk Quota’s.
• Member of the National Rural Network Strategic Issues Working Group which published a report entitled “Potential of Farm Partnerships to Facilitate Entry into and Establishment in Farming”.
• Awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship in January 2011 sponsored by FBD Trust for a study entitled “Access to Land for Dairying – New Legal and Tax Models in an Irish Context”.  The stated objective of the Irish Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust (NFST) is to identify future leaders of Irish agriculture and to facilitate their quest to bring about meaningful change for the benefit of the agricultural industry.
• Leading contributor to the Joint Initiative by the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine and the Department of Finance on the Agri-Taxation Review.