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‘BLAYNEY AND TYDAVNET SHOWS GEARING UP FOR 2022 RETURN
August is set to see the return of Co Monaghan’s major summer agricultural show events. The committee of Castleblayney Show announced this week that preparations for their 2022 event were “going full steam ahead”, and they planned to “bring you a fantastic day for all the family” on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1. The Tydavnet Show committee has set the date of August 20 for its 2022 event. Recent years have seen the cancellation of Ireland’s agricultural shows due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But Irish Shows Association General Secretary Jim ...
TYDAVNET SHOW SCALED DOWN AFTER WETTEST JULY ON RECORD
By Veronica Corr The Tydavnet Parish Show committee have confirmed that the 61st show, scheduled for August 18th will go ahead, but will be scaled down. The decision was taken due to field conditions being less than ideal for livestock classes, given the recent spell of wet weather. In fact, July was the wettest and coldest on record. But the show must and will go on, and the indoor classes such as Home Industries and kids’ classes will proceed as normal, as will the Bonny Baby and Dog Show heats. The cattle, sheep, ...
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Co Monaghan has always been justly proud of its agricultural show tradition, and the recent staging of the annual events in Castleblayney and Tydavnet have reaffirmed the justification for that pride. Both events have presented the various facets of the county’s rural existence in a highly impressive manner, presenting a vista on agricultural enterprise pleasingly at odds with the gloomy habilliments worn by most other aspects of economic activity at the present time. And the picture painted by the county’s agricultural show presentations this year has been a ...