Some of the finest cattle in Europe will be on view at the country’s biggest one-day agricultural show, the Tullamore Show, on Sunday.

There were only “two or three hours” over the weekend when ground staff were not preparing Semple Stadium for the five games it hosted.

A huge weekend of senior hurling activity saw the Tipperary SHC championship reduced to the last eight, and while there were no major upsets, there were some very significant results, not least the victory of Thurles Sarsfields over Drom-Inch.

Mental Health Service providers say there needs to be a minimum standard of care provided to patients.

An Irish suicide charity’s helpline in Britain last month received 600 calls from Irish immigrants who it deemed to be of “immediate risk” of taking their own lives.

Two injury-time points gave Clonmel Commercials a 1-8 to 1-6 victory over great rivals Clonmel Óg in the Tipperary SFC at Monroe on Saturday evening.

He’s still only 36, but basketball’s Women’s Superleague coach of the year James Weldon has already been coaching for half his life. The trick? Continually pushing himself outside his comfort zone in the search for new methods and insights, even if that’s an obscure tournament in eastern Europe. The UL Huskies coach doesn’t do down time.

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.

Calls for help to a mental-health phone line almost doubled over the last year as the economic crisis impacted on people’s lives, it emerged today.

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.

PLANS are going ahead for Tullamore Show which will be held on a new enlarged site on the Butterfield Estate at Bluebell, Co Offaly, three miles from the previous location, on August 9.

THE celebrated Tullamore Show, which had to be cancelled in each of the past two years because of weather conditions, is to go ahead on August 9 next at a new site.

TILLAGE farmers countrywide are hoping for improved weather conditions so that they can get on with their harvesting work.

RURAL Ireland yesterday rallied behind the organisers of Tullamore Show after they had to take the heartbreaking decision to cancel their celebrated event for the second year running because of atrocious weather.

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.

TULLAMORE Show, the biggest in the country, which had to be cancelled last year due to wet weather, will be held this year on August 10.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern found himself in the middle of a plot when visited the National Ploughing Championships at Annaharvey yesterday — but it had nothing to do with politics.

TWO horse racing legends led the field a merry dance at Munster Rugby’s annual golf classic at Dundrum House Hotel in Cashel.

THE vital statistics of Tullamore’s celebrated show and national livestock exhibition in Co Offaly, yesterday, told their own story of the sheer scale of the one-day event, which attracted an estimated record attendance of 55,000 people.

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.

THE GAA should ignore any potential extension of Waterford into Kilkenny in an effort to quell deep-rooted hurling rivalries, Waterford city councillors have urged.

The country’s potato growers have been urged by both the IFA and Teagasc to reduce plantings this season to improve market conditions.

Dublin: Law firm Matheson Ormsby Prentice has appointed former Elan senior executive Tom Maher as a partner and head of the firm’s life sciences practice.

The newly elected Chairman of the Mid Tipperary GAA Board Johnny Doyle (Holycross-Ballycahill) has stated that the ordinary club players in the GAA are getting a raw deal and will not take the same treatment for much longer.

A HEALTH board has been criticised for centralising post mortem facilities and adding to the trauma of families by forcing some to travel up to 140 miles of a round trip to identify bodies. They also fear the move will delay funerals for already distressed relatives.