Summer show set to serve up food and fun

Dogs might have to be kept on a lead but a cow, a calf, a horse, and a pony were let loose in a city park yesterday to help launch the 171st Cork Summer Show.

It’s set to be a historic event for organisers, the Munster Agriculture Society (MAS), as it will be the first to be staged at the society’s new headquarters on the western outskirts of the city.

MAS spokesman Gerard Murphy marshalled the animals in Fitzgerald Park as details of the three-day event, of which the Irish Examiner is media partner and which runs from June 15 to 17, were announced.