If China can have a Year of the Snake, Ireland might yet be celebrating the Year of the Tree.

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.

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.

The Tullamore Agricultural Show has been cancelled because of the torrential rain.

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.

Ireland's largest agricultural event has been cancelled due to the bad weather.

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.

IT was a day that featured talk about unmarked white vans delivering imported meat to hotels, restaurants and catering outlets, as if it was a scene from some James Bond film.

Tullamore: Some 40,000 people are expected to attend the country’s premier agricultural show tomorrow.

OILSKINS and wellies were required for a period at the country’s top livestock show in Tullamore, Co Offaly, yesterday as heavy rain lashed the event.

WHAT do you get when you mix an infectious rural spirit with a heritage of producing quality food and animals, nourish it with good whiskey and add an invigorating range of country lifestyles?