The country’s biggest one-day rural show at Tullamore will have a new layout for its 2013 event at Butterfield Estate on Aug 11.

They look lovely and last so long — well looked after dairy show cows come up shining year after year, with top winners from 2010 taking the red rosettes again last Sunday at Tullamore Show.

AS many as 50,000 people visited Tullamore yesterday to learn about Irish agriculture.

Around 60,000 people are expected to descend on Tullamore in Co Offaly today for the Tullamore Show.

Organisers do not expect weather problems for next Sunday’s Tullamore Show and AIB National Livestock Show, where exhibitors will flock in search of some of the €165,000 on offer for the best livestock, home industries, dogs, inventions, poultry, best dressed lady, glamorous granny — and much more.

A labour force of 470 are striving to overcome the summer washout and ensure that one of Ireland’s top agricultural shows goes ahead successfully.

THE new Meat Village at the Tullamore Show and AIB National Livestock Show will offer an opportunity for processors to engage with cattle farmers to highlight the requirements of the meat market, and for farmers and processors to share knowledge with retailers.

THE role of agricultural shows has been praised by Government ministers north and south, Brendan Smith and Michelle Gildernew.

THE sheer scale of Tullamore Show next Sunday reveals why it is aptly hailed as the country’s “Ag Olympics”.

THE annual Tullamore Show represents the resilience of the Irish people, according to Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

THE organisers of Tullamore Show and AIB have linked up to elevate the livestock classes at the event to a new status.

VISITORS returning to the scene of last year’s World Holstein Friesian Conference Show at Millstreet will again see the best of Irish cows.

CONNOISSEURS of dairy cows are in for a treat at the National Dairy Show in Millstreet, Co Cork on Saturday, October 17.

THE celebrated Tullamore Show tomorrow will turn that part of Co Offaly into the undisputed capital of rural Ireland for the day.

SOME 50,000 people are expected to attend Tullamore Show, which will be held on a new site at Bluebell, three kilometres from the Co Offaly town.

Motorists were rescued from trapped cars and hundreds of houses were damaged after record levels of rainfall caused freak flash flooding across Dublin.

Motorists are being urged to drive with extreme care this morning as many roads are awash with water after flash flooding.

IT IS not every enterprise, voluntary or commercial, that can take a 500,000 hit from the weather, and bounce back bigger and better than ever.

FROM bantam hens to cooks, all-Ireland champions of all kinds emerged at the agricultural shows in August and September.

NEXT month’s National Ploughing Championships will stage Ireland’s only full livestock exhibition in 2007, after Sunday’s Tullamore Show and AIB National Livestock Show was cancelled due to floods.

THE agricultural shows which begin over the May Bank Holiday weekend are much more than a great day out for rural people — they also play an important role in raising standards in the country’s sport horse, livestock and artisan food sectors.

UP TO 50,000 people are expected to attend Tullamore Show on Sunday.

SOME 50,000 people are expected to attend this year’s Tullamore Show on August 13, which will be opened by Minister for Agriculture and Food, Mary Coughlan, TD.