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Mrs Elizabeth
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Northern Ireland
Young Limousin Breeders Website
ALL-IRELAND LIMOUSIN BULL & HEIFER DERBY FINALS
2008 Event Launched at Virginia
Following on from the very successful finals of this prestigious All-Ireland
Event organised by the NI Limousin Cattle Club and held at Castlewellan
Show last year, the scene for 2008 moves South with the Irish Limousin
Society taking the responsibility for staging the finals. These will
be held in Co Cavan, at the Virginia Show – one of the largest
shows in the North-Eastern Region – on Wednesday 20th August 2008
where the event will be one of the Show highlights and where young Limousin
Bulls and Heifers from the Republic of Ireland and from Northern Ireland,
which have been pre-qualified, will parade before Judge Mr Ron Cruickshank
who will select this year’s All-Ireland Champions in both categories.
A tremendous amount of work and planning has already gone into the Derbies,
not least being the securing of sponsorships, while constant contacts
have been set up with DAFF and DARD so as to ensure that, from an animal
health point of view, there will be no obstacles to staging the show.
The success of the 2007 Derby finals is still being talked about everywhere
Limousin enthusiasts meet. The quality of the finalists in both the Bull
and Heifer Derby, the enormous number of spectators from all corners
of Ireland and the wonderful sunshine on the day meant a spectacular
day for Limousins at their first Final on July 2007 at Castlewellan Show.
Such was the prestige of the event that it is rumoured that the day after
Castlewellan many Limousin breeders were seen in their fields assessing
their stock to see if they had any ‘stars’ for the 2008 Derbies!!!.
The top animals of the 2007 final went on to achieve greater accolades
later in the year with the Bull Derby winner Ampertaine Bravo securing
the Supreme Championship at the November 2007 Carlisle Bull Sale and
selling for £24,000 while the Heifer Derby winner Millbrook Ainsi2
went on to become Junior Female Champion at the Irish National Limousin
Show 2007. These facts further illustrate the quality seen at the finals
in Castlewellan.
With the Limousin breed growing in popularity all over Ireland, this
competition will highlight all that is good about the breed in a Limousin
extravaganza. The Derbies will maintain an ongoing interest in the breed
in their respective areas right through the year with places at the finals
being decided in regional qualifiers at the Northern and Southern summer
agricultural shows.
The organisers are in a buoyant mood and this was evident on Thursday
evening at an Official Derbies’ Launch at the Lake Side Manor Hotel
in Virginia, Co Cavan, when details of what has been planned were made
public to an impressive audience of Limousin Breeders, Irish Society
and NI Club Members, local dignitaries and members of the public. Those
present took time out to listen as the meeting was addressed by Irish
Society Chief Executive, Noel Gowen, together with the Society President
Mr William Smyth, NI Club President John Gordon and NI Club Chairman
Bryan McElroy, all of whom spoke highly of the value of the event, the
quality of stock which had been forward in 2007, how the organisation
of the Derbies had brought the two groups closer together, and how the
expectations for 2008 were of another prestigious and well supported
event.
The evening ended with Bryan McElroy making a presentation to outgoing Irish Limousin Society Chief Executive, Ger Ryan, on the occasion of his moving on to other employment.
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The All Ireland Derbies are supported with generous sponsorship by the Ulster Bank and IAWS.
CLUB INFORMATION SHEET - MARCH 2008
TRIP TO WALES
After the success of the French Trip last year, we will again be organizing
a trip, this time to Wales. The trip scheduled for the 19 – 22
July, will encompass the Royal Welsh Show and several herd visits to
the top leading Pedigree Herds in Wales, flights will be from Dublin
Airport. Please fill in the booking form and return with Deposit £50
by 31 March. (Limited Spaces)
ANNUAL DINNER DANCE
Please put this date in your diary Saturday 29 November 2008 in the City
of Armagh Hotel
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
Members are encouraged to please pay their Annual Subscriptions if they
have not already done so. If there are any queries please phone me.
Elizabeth RodgersNote: Extract from Club Constitution: Rule Subscriptions (d) “Any Member in arrears of subscription by the end of February in any year will have levelled on him/her/them a charge of £5 in excess of current Membership Subscription. Any member failing to pay the subscription and the £5 excess charge by 1st June in any year will forfeit Membership of the Club and will not be accepted again as a Member until all subscription arrears are fully paid.”
Club Secretary
SALES 2008
Ballymena Female Sale
Saturday 19th January 2008
report
Dungannon Bull & Female Sale
Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd February 2008
report
Ballymena Bull & Female Sale
Monday 26th May 2008
Dungannon Bull & Female Sale
Friday 7th & Saturday 8th November 2008
Entries close 26th September
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