Foodie Jeffares also a sport-horse winner

Better known as founder and managing director of Good Food Ireland, Margaret Jeffares is also an accomplished producer of sport horses, and her Ballykelly Empress was one of the stars of last weekend’s Limerick Show.

Good Food Ireland is an all-island brand standard for Irish food, restaurants, pubs, cafes, accommodation, cookery schools, food shops and food producers, since it was launched by Ms Jeffares in 2006.

The Co Wexford woman went home from Limerick with the trophies for champion young horse, champion filly, and the reserve prize in the venerable Traditional Irish Horse Association (TIHA) Limerick Lady competition, in which Co Sligo horse producer, Jim Tempany, showed the champ.

Some of the main winning exhibitors at Limerick were:

HORSES

Nick Murphy, Enniscorthy. Reserve: Jim Tempany, Skreen, Sligo.

Martin Murphy Meelick, Co Mayo. Reserve: Eddie Murphy, Charlestown, Co. Mayo

Tina Murphy, Ballinascarthy, Co Cork.

PJ Sullivan. Reserve: Ann O’Grady.

Jim Tempany. Reserve: Margaret Jeffares, Wexford.

Gil Langford, Shanagolden, Co Limerick. Reserve: Sue Ryan.

Fiona Hickey, Ballyneety. Reserve: Andy Sheehy, Askeaton.

Margaret Jeffares, ‘Ballykelly Empress’.

Margaret Jeffers, ‘Ballykelly Empress’.

Derry Rothwell.

Tom Jones, Ballymacoda, Co Cork.

JP McManus, Kilmallock, (Binocular).

Orla Queally.

Martha McNamara, Newmarket-on-Fergus.

Lorna Twomey, Newmarket-on-Fergus.