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THE NATIONAL LIVESTOCK Show at Tullamore, Co Offaly is expected to draw crowds of up to 60,000 people today.
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney said “Agricultural shows such as this one in Tullamore play an important role in the social calendar of the farming community.
They allow farmers to meet their friends and fellow farmers and discuss the latest development in farming and agri-food business.
“This is all the more relevant now the sector is such a key driver of economic growth and export earnings.”
Garda Adrian Nevin even called in some back up at The Garda Community Relations Stand at the show.
The site stretches over 250 acres with over 8 hectares of tented pavilions.
The show has more than 700 trade stands with cooking demonstrations also on display:
Traffic
AA Roadwatch says delays are expected around the event during the day.
A shuttle bus service is running from O’Connor Square and Tullamore Train Station every hour from 9am.
A section of the N52 from Mucklagh to Blueball will be closed to non-show traffic from approximately 7am to 8pm.
AA Roadwatch says that diversions will be signposted but adds that a “one-way traffic system will operate around the Showgrounds at peak times, which will add to delays”.
There is free car parking for over 20,000 cars.
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At leat they got a good day for it. If it had have been last week, the cows would have been Freisian
They’d have to put a jersey on then
Pull the udder one.
Even if you have no interest in farming it’s still a good day out.
Easy to forget sometimes that we are still a strong agricultural country.
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Guys, get a room.
The farmers G7.
AIB business tweet a cock and bull pic and then say it’s a load of cows when really it’s a load of bullocks. I can see bullsh!t in the straw.
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