The uncrowned 'champion': No show for Denis' Hereford

You can take a horse to the river, but you can't make him drink, laments Farming columnist Denis Lehane.

Halter or no halter, Denis says it might take more strength than he can muster to hold on to his Hereford bull.

My phone hasn't stopped ringing all summer long with people inquiring as to why I haven't yet attended an agricultural show with my famous Hereford.

"You promised us you'd take him," a woman quite rightly pointed out to me on the main street in Macroom only last Thursday as she was picking up her Farm Exam.