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  1. AlbertJ
    Good to see you and your maes adding a little 'international' flavour to the fair.
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    Thanks to all who turned out to support the Roscrea Working Dog Club event at the fair. A good crowd for the racing and a huge lurcher entry for the irrespressible Nigel Quinn who was judging non stop for over 3.5 hours. Terriers judged by John Hendrick had a decent entry, as did whippets under Tracie Crosbie. Most welcome. as everyone has commented about on facebook, was the fantastic family atmosphere that prevailed and the real sportsmanship displayed. The terrier entry was a little affected by rumours being spread that the ISPCA were going to be present at the fair again. As we exp
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    Lurcher course and Crowds at Birr
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    THE ISPCA will NOT be in attendance and of course they attended last year to deal with dog sellers at the requests of the Garda. No dog owner was hassled in anyway. The Gards reoved a dog dealer. This year the Gards will remove anyone attempting to sell dogs or pups.
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    THE ROI TERRIER, LURCHER & WHIPPET CHAMPIONSHIPS IRISH GAME & COUNTRY FAIR, BIRR CASTLE ON SUNDAY 27TH AUGUST 2017. RACING Starting at 11.00 and Showing Starting at 14.00 hrs. Full Time Table below : 1) Before 11.00 am Registration of competitors for Mick the Miller Racing at Game Fair HQ on the main site. 2) Before 12.00 am Registration of competitors for Five Nations Lurcher Championships at Game Fair HQ on the main site. THE FEEDWELL TERRIER, WHIPPET & LURCHER RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS SUNDAY 27th August starting 11.00 am sharp. LURCHER RACING The Over 23" ROI
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    Great to have our final site meeting at Birr with Shane Lee from the Roscrea club , and our Terrier, Lurcher & Whippet Director. Fantastic lurcher course being prepared that will really test the qualifiers for the MICK THE MILLER CHALLENGE - the most prestigious lurcher race of the year. And of course there are several other ROI Game Fair Championship titles to be won - all with great prize money. Racing starts at 11.00 on the Mount Palmer site entry by GATE C.Registration there for everything except the Mick the Miller. See the course before its final preparation. Then on at 2.
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    Thanks Margaret - site bathed in sunshine and good progress on build and one of the best one day terrier , whippet and lurcher programmes ever seen in Ireland with the Mick the Miller and Five Nations Finals.
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    Thanks to all for your personal and public messages of support for the Game Fair at Birr Castle this upcoming weekend. The team and I greatly appreciate this. And even FACEBOOK too congratulated us on the the huge increase in likes and support! We have a great show in place for anyone interested in hunting, shooting and fishing and who wishes to demonstrate their support for IRISH COUNTRYSPORTS - that's why YOUR representative organisations will all be present to talk to their members and make new members. Full details of the great competitions and prizes including a FREE downloa
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    Thanks to CAI for coming on board to 'beef up' the cash prizes and to FEEDWELL great supporters of ALL Countrysports for sponsoring food for both SHOW & RACING. Also to RED MILLS for sponsoring the FIVE NATIONS lurcher championships - remember still a chance to win the ROI Champion Lurcher Title and qualify to take your chance in the big ring.
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    Edwin and I are just back from making final arrangements in Birr and great news in acquiring more sponsorship for ALL of the competitions. It might surprise some people on this forum entitled GAME FAIRS is that is exactly what we do - WE ORGANISE GAME FAIRS, not just simply Terrier, Whippet and Lurcher shows and have been organising Game Fairs ( including terrier and lurcher shows) for 39 years and 63 events. In fact Edwin ran one of the first major terrier & lurcher events in ireland in 1979. Our fairs concentrate on bringing all of the main countrysports representation organ
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    Well done to everyone and all who qualified for the Great Game Fairs of Ireland Championships - both the Five Nations Lurcher Championship at the Birr Game Fair Sunday 27th August 2017 but also the 2018 Championships. And a big thank you to Margaret for another very atmospheric report.
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    I should have said qualifiers should register at Game Fair HQ before 11.00am on Sunday 27th August.
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    We are delighted to announce the judges for: IRELAND'S MAJOR LURCHER SHOWING CHAMPIONSHIPS - The RED MILLS FIVE NATIONS LURCHER CHAMPIONSHIPS This highlight of the lurcher showing year will be staged in the main arena at 5.30 at the Irish Game & Country Fair at Birr Castle on Sunday 27th August. The judges are Donal Smith, Alan Crosbie and Kieran Young. We think they represent a good cross section of lurchers and under our system they judge independently of each other. Each judging and scoring each dog out of 10 for FOUR CRITERIA : Conformation; Movement; Condition and Fi
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    For competition details See facebook page https://www.(!64.56:886/groups/172092726163876/ BIRR CASTLE GAME FAIR COMPETITION with EDINBURGH CLOTHING. The AUTUMN EDITION of Irish Countrysports and Country Life magazine is FREE TO READ ONLINE at www.countrysportsandcountrylife.com with some very special offers on PERCUSSION and other great country clothing from Edinburgh Clothing. To enter the competition to win a very smart Percussion Tradition Waistcoat, a year's subscription to the magazine and two tickets to either the Birr Fair 26/27 August 2017 or Shanes Castle 2018 simpl
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    Special Game Fair Edition of IRISH COUNTRYSPORTS & COUNTRY LIFE Magazine with Terrier, Lurcher & Whippet Show reports on the SHANES CASTLE GAME FAIR & JED DONAGH'S SHOW plus PREVIEW of the ROI SHOW & RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS at BIRR CASTLE on SUNDAY 27th AUGUST including the GGFofI MICK THE MILLER RACE. PLUS MANY OTHER SPORTING ARTICLES: FREE TO READ ONLINE at www.countrysportsandcountrylife.com
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    Dazzam, Its time you made a visit. Contact me if you can make it even for one of the days!
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    Best of luck with the show John. Always a great day out. If I get this backlog of work cleared might get a run down.
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    We will have some of the best terrier, lurcher & whippet prizes in Ireland at the Birr Castle Game Fair on Sunday 27th August including for the fabulous MICK THE MILLER CHALLENGE but we also have superb prizes in all of the other sports including clay pigeon shooting. Clay Shooting - SOME GREAT SHOOTING PRIZES AT BIRR CASTLE on the 26th & 27th AUGUST Some of the biggest clay pigeon shooting prizes in Ireland will be on offer at the annual Irish Game & Country Fair over Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th
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    THE ROI TERRIER, LURCHER & WHIPPET CHAMPIONSHIPS BOTH RACING & SHOWING at the IRISH GAME & COUNTRY FAIR, BIRR CASTLE ON SUNDAY 27TH AUGUST 2017. NOTE : Following suggestions from competitors it has been decided to run all of the terrier, lurcher and whippet events in one day Sunday 27th August with RACING Starting at 11.00 and Showing Starting at 14.00 hrs. Full Time Table below : 1. Before 11.00 am Registration of competitors for Mick the Miller Racing at Game Fair HQ on the main site. 2. Before 12.00 am Registration of competitors for Five Nations Lurcher Championsh
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    We were delighted to help sponsor two successful teams at the weekend. ANGLING : The Tafi Ulster junior angling team became interprovincial champions. We don't usually allow bucket collections at the fair but these very polite young men needed £1,000 for their challenge. They reached this through the donations from our patrons and a top up from Bobby Bryans and ourselves. GUNDOGS : We also joined up with Red Mills to sponsor the Irish gundog team at the Scottish Game Fair. Top dog,top retriever team and 2nd overall -well done guys! Although our sponsorship budget is limited it is
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    ONCE AGAIN a SILLY and totally INACCURATE POST by SKIP. LIKE ALL OF HIS ALLEGATIONS TOTALLY FALSE. The Scottish Terrier Display team who were doing demos in the two arenas and two of whom judged as one of three judges in each of the Five Nations Terrier & Whippet Championships were invited to the event by the GGF of I team. As such we looked after their accommodation and they were accommodated in a Guest House in Crumlin.
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    The Master Mc Grath Challenge the first leg of our twin All Ireland lurcher racing challenges produced a great finish and a great example of sportsmanship by the Smith family. As David Martin, manager of Brownlow House, the home of Lord Lurgan, stated on the Frank Mitchell Show, there is a neat link to the Shanes Castle Fair in that my co-founder of the fair, Major William Brownlow, was a member of the Brownlow family from Lurgan, and of course related to McGrath's owner,Lord Lurgan. Now its on to Birr and the Mick The Miller Challenge Final which has the support of the Mick The Miller com
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    Well the Shanes Castle Fair is over with record crowds of countrysports enthusiasts on both days. Great gundog events with a new cocker event and I personally was delighted that the individual international retriever event was won by a golden retriever. The clayshooting and angling competitions too were excellent. Now this is supposed to be a Game Fair thread but do you see any examples of poor sportmanship on here from gundog enthusiasts, shooters and anglers? They too compete for good prizes and a large number of them are personal friends but they accept the judges decisions with gr
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    Programme for Irish Game Fair http://irishgamefair.com/pdf/GF_Programme.pdf
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    Frank Mitchell's radio show on U105 will be broadcast live from the Game Fair at Shane Castle this morning from 9.00 am to 12.00noon.
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