Champ from Carrigart to Cappamore

DONEGAL has Killybegs for the fish and Carrigart and Raphoe for the beef.

Gerald Gallagher, Carrigart, brought his two-year-old Charolais bullock 250 miles south to win the €2,500 GVM All-Ireland commercial championship at last Wednesday’s Cappamore Show in Co Limerick, and the reserve champion was exhibited by Garvin Milligan, Raphoe.

Sam Coleman, Ballymena, who judged the final, said both were outstanding, and the general standard as high as he’d seen when he judged at the Royal Show in England this year.

RESULTS

Exhibitors of the champions were as follows (reserves in brackets).

GVM All Ireland €2,500 Commercial Championship - 1, Gerald Gallagher, Carrigart, Co. Donegal; 2, Garvan Milligan, Raphoe, Co. Donegal; 3, Christopher McCann, The Pidgeons, Athlone, Co. Westmeath; 4, Sharon Rothwell, Greenhall, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow; 5, William R Gubbins, Kilfinane, Co. Limerick; 6, Tim O’Donovan, Dunmanway, Co. Cork; 7, John Hannon, Kilfinny, Adare, Co. Limerick.

Dairy - John Curtin, Athlacca, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick.

Beef - T and A. Butler, Gooldscross, Cashel, Co Tipperary. (Dan Tynan, Beechill Farm, Mountrath, Co. Laois) Commercial - Gerald Gallagher (Martin Ryan, Thurles, Co Tipperary).

Hereford - Albert de Cogan, Castlemartyr, Co. Cork. (Trevor Dudley, Dovea, Thurles, Co. Tipperary).

Hereford All-Ireland Senior Bull of the Year - Albert de Cogan.

Hereford All-Ireland Senior Female - Albert de Cogan.

Hereford All-Ireland Junior Bull - Trevor Dudley.

Hereford All-Ireland Junior Female - Trevor Dudley.

Aberdeen Angus - Matthew Goulding, Ballyduff, Co Kerry. (P J Fitzgibbon, Boher, Co. Limerick).

Charolais - T and A Butler (Kay and Jerry O’Keeffe, Grange, Knocklong, Co Limerick.

Limousin - Dan Tynan (Ger Ryan, Fermoy, Co. Cork)

Belgian Blue - John Searsons, Roscrea, Co Tipperary (Tom Foynes, Clonaslea, Co. Laois)

Simmental - John Kenny, Ballyduff, Co. Waterford (Seamus Aherne, Cappamore, Co. Limerick)

South West Breeders - Seamus Aherne (Robert Davis, Crecora, Co. Limerick.

Shorthorn - Owen S O’Neill, Brittas, Co. Limerick (James O’Gorman, Adare, Co. Limerick.

HORSES

Champion Young Horse - Ger and Sadie Murphy, Gorey, Co Wexford (Mary Walsh, Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary).

Champion Foal - Kieran Fahey, Enniskeane, Co. Cork (Sean O’Sullivan, Butlerstown, Co. Cork)

Champion Brood Mare - Timmy Ryan, Rossmore, Cashel, Co Tipperary (Kieran Fahey, Enniskeane, Co. Cork).

Show Hunter Pony Championship - Michelle Dempsey, Meanus, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick.

Best mare with foal at foot - Gerry Reilly, Templemore, Co Tipperary.