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.

A RARE National Dairy Show, two-in-a-row win kept the Barrett clan of Togher and Adamstown, Cork, at the top of Irish dairy showing last weekend.

FARMERS in Co Limerick have renewed efforts to get alleged high livestock mortality levels around Askeaton investigated after Bord Pleanala has been told of high demand for livestock knackery services in the area.