Weather swamps summer show
The Munster Agriculture Society, organisers of the 171st Cork Summer Show, were expecting up to 30,000 visitors at their new site at Curraheen this year.
However, after cancelling yesterday’s opening events, the weather has also forced the society to abandon today’s events.
A spokesperson for MAS said it was the first time in living memory that the society had to cancel two days of summer show events.
They are hoping for a break in the weather tomorrow when they plan to cram all of the postponed events into a single day — starting showing classes at 8.30am.
Updates will be provided at corksummershow.com.
The organisers had no option but to cancel the inter-school showjumping, the primary and secondary school showjumping, the pony club games, and the Cork national hunt harrier show. The inter-school showjumping will now take place on June 30, with the hunt harrier show rescheduled for next Saturday, both in Curraheen.
A charity barbecue in aid of the Children’s Leukaemia Association and the Cork Association for Autism, which was due to take place at the show tonight, will instead take place in Ryan’s SuperValu, Glanmire, Cork, from 7.30pm until 11pm.
The 80,000 people expected at Croke Park to celebrate the final Mass of the International Eucharistic Congress tomorrow will also be praying for a weather miracle. However, as we head towards midsummer’s day next Thursday, there are fears of a summer washout with more heavy rain, strong winds, and thunderstorms forecast.
Met Éireann figures show 117mm of rain fell at its Cork Airport weather station since the start of June — more than the rain total for February and March combined.
Several areas remained on flood alert after yesterday’s downpours which followed a week of torrential rain, filling already swollen rivers to bursting point.
Monaghan Rd and Centre Park Rd in Cork were closed for several hours yesterday due to flooding.
AA Roadwatch had reports of fallen trees in Carrigaline and near Waterloo, in Co Cork, of fallen debris in Castletown and Tullyallen in Co Louth, and of dangerous road conditions across the country due to heavy surface water.
Today and tomorrow are forecast to be dry with a chance of sunny spells, but it will remain cool. However, it is back to winter-style weather early next week with long spells of thundery rain forecast for Monday.
The good news is that Tuesday looks dry with sunny spells and temperatures up to 18C.
A general weather warning was in effect last night, as well as gale and small craft warnings. Met Éireann also issued a blight warning, which it says relates to “conditions favouring the spread of potato blight”.
Meanwhile, strict visitor restrictions were introduced at Bantry General Hospital after an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.
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