Judge praises ‘best cattle’ at Emerald Expo 2012 show

The best cattle he had ever seen at any American or European dairy show, was the fulsome tribute paid by Canadian Donald Dubois after he judged last week’s Emerald Expo 2012 show in Kilkenny.

And a Co Limerick herd which has been winning the top prizes since the 1990s was the star performer of the 49 herds represented, from Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Offaly, Louth, Meath, Tipperary, Wexford, and Wicklow.

Mr Dubois said the show had the finest Best Three Females Owned by Exhibitor section he had seen — and that was just one of the rosettes claimed by Patrick and Derrick Frawley’s Croagh herd, from Rathkeale, Co Limerick.