The Oldcastle Agricultural Show is set to return with a bang on Sunday 16th July!

ere are substantial prizes in prize money to be won on the day. Entries are now being taken in over 380 classes in the Cattle, Sheep, Horse, Poultry and Home Industry competitions to be found on www.oldcastleshow.ie. YouTube singing sensation Fr. Ray Kelly returns to Gilson Park along with local musicians, Line Dancing and Irish Dancing. YouTube star Farmer Phil will also be attending this year!

e Irish Aberdeen Angus Association is holding the ‘Growvite All-Ireland Finals’ in Gilson Park this year. It has a prize fund of €6,000. Clarke Machinery Group sponsors ‘ e Best Young Farmer Competition’ who will also be crowned at this year’s show.

e contest is open to 16 to 21-year-olds that will take part in a written general agricultural knowledge test, show o their livestock knowledge and tractor skills. ere will be a prize fund of €1,500 for the winner of the ‘Oldcastle All Ireland Final Young Beef Bullock Championship’. Traditional Meat Company, Oldcastle, proudly sponsors our new ‘Champion Continental Bullock or Heifer Class’ with a suburb prize list.

e North East Texel Society are also holding their Club Championship at Oldcastle Agricultural Show, kindly sponsored by Univet. New Beltex and Blue

Texel classes also feature. We welcome sheep from everywhere!

We also have our wonderful Family Riding Pony ring! A range of fun lled events for two legged and four legged super stars! Alongside our usual Horse and Pony classes, back this year is the ever popular Working and Ridden Hunter classes. e ever popular ‘Greatest Cockrel of Oldcastle’ competition will cause plenty of feathers to be ru ed. Our new goat classes will attract some bucks! e Automobile Section will have a large range of vintage tractors and machinery including vintage threshers. From old to new, we have it all!

Shearer’s are ocking to the show to take part in the Sheep Shearing Junior and Senior classes. e Show Hall has every class from turf, jam, cakes and decorated wellies and stones for all the children! e

Oldcastle Show Dog Show has classes for every madra, from a purebred to a mongrel with lots of great prizes and rosettes to be won. ‘Little Miss Oldcastle’ and the ‘Young Bachelor of Oldcastle’ will also be crowned on the day. You wouldn't want to miss the spectacular Birds of Prey which are ying into Oldcastle for the day. e amazingly talented Joey Burns is back sculpting wood. With every type of trade stand, there will be lots to see and do! e Food and Craft village has lots of bits to nibble and try on!

Children's entertainment on the day, with the Pet Farm and the Native Biodiversity Corner being of particular interest.

You can keep up to date with all the latest news from the Oldcastle Agricultural Show on Facebook. For more details see www.oldcastleshow.ie

You won’t want to miss the biggest ever Oldcastle Agricultural Show on Sunday 16th July!

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Adults - €10, OAPs and Students - €5, ChildrenFREE at former Director General Dee Forbes was “ the only one (!) who knew what was going on”. at Dee Forbes was ‘allowed’ to conveniently ‘resign’ from her post and thus not be obligatorily obliged to appear before the inquiry committee, and she, allegedly, the only one with ‘all the answers’ – well you just couldn’t make it up. With most of the Grant ornton report released, RTE has said there was no ‘illegality’ in the the management of the controversial payments.

Let’s park a few things aside rst. From what has emerged so far from those who have appeared before the special Oireachtas committees of inquiry into the RTE/Ryan Tubridy a air, it would seem that those allegedly ‘in charge’, as a collective self, were, actually, dysfunctional. From what they said nobody, it seems, “knew what was going on”.

Well, as Miley was wont to say, Holy God.

Meantime, my money is on this inquiry dragging on, with we, the public whose hard-earned taxes contributed to ‘secret payments’ – a so-called barter arrangement – of €345,00 to broadcaster Ryan Tubridy over some four or ve years, becoming so furious and upset as many struggle to put a roof over their head and a loaf of bread on the table.

RTÉ is the only combined national TV and radio operator in Ireland, and the law on media mergers means it’ll never have an equally resourced opponent. It gets its money’s worth by getting the likes of Tubridy, Claire Byrne, Joe Du y, Brendan O’Connor