AFTER a wet 2009, cows but no rain are on offer next Saturday at the National Dairy Show. The event is completely under cover in the Green Glens Arena at Millstreet, and offers an enjoyable day out for all the family, whatever the weather.

CONCERN is mounting for four Pakistani crewmen who have been abandoned without wages or food on board a trawler anchored off a Cork port for over month.

CO CORK dairy breeder Peter Kingston will take on all-comers at the 5th European Holstein Show this weekend with his Quintana Melissa Grand, the February 2004 European champion at the Agribex Show in Brussels, having won the Irish Examiner Farming Supreme Championship at Millstreet a few months previously.