West Cork leads the tally for Bandon rosettes

LIVESTOCK exhibitors are back on the roads of Munster, heading across the county lines in search of winners’ red rosettes.

Last Sunday at Bandon, Killarney exhibitor John Brosnan showed the champion Shorthorn. A week earlier, Seamus Lehane, Clonakilty, had shown the champion horse at the Kingdom County Fair in Tralee — the first big show of the year, which attracted long-distance exhibitors such as Paddy Downes, Kilrush, Co Clare, runner-up exhibitor in the horse championship.

Timothy Kirby from Duagh kept the dairy championship prize in the kingdom, with John Curtin, Kilmallock, Co Limerick, taking the reserve rosette.