All-Ireland rivals combine to grab all-island success

MAYO and Fermanagh were football opponents in Croke Park yesterday, but it was different at the weekend Limerick Show where interests from both counties combined to bring off a spectacular all-island final success in horse showing.

White Carnation, a two-year-old Irish Draught mare, bred and exhibited by James Duffy, Kilmovee, Co Mayo, and shown by Adrian Hurst, Lisbellaw, Co Fermanagh, won the coveted Aughinish Limerick Lady championship, organised by the Show Society and the Hunter Improvement Society of Ireland (HISI).

Qualifiers for the Limerick decider were chosen at 30 shows held countrywide as part of a championship that was started 19 years ago.