Irish Simmental Yearbook 2024-D - Flipbook - Page 97
BY EOIN COOGAN
2023 was a very active year for our club. Several of our members had success across shows and sales.
While attendance at meetings has seen a gradual increase.
Barry Fleming - Chairman Eoin Coogan - Secretary
Herds Competition
Our club was delighted to welcome Callum Croft and Lizzie Harding across the water to judge our
2023 herds competition. Our primary goal for this Club activity was to engage members both new and
old to showcase their stock while also encouraging them to get involved with our club proceedings
and activities.
Callum thanked all of the herds involved for giving up their time to showcase their cattle which were a
credit to everyone involved. He also commented about the difficulty in judging some classes.
In total, 15 herds competed. This culminated in both new herds picking up their first rosettes and
longer established herds adding to their already impressive trophy cabinets. With a lot of different
winners, the results can be seen on our newly created Facebook page (Irish Simmental Club SE)! The
following were the overall small, medium, and large herd winners.
1st
2nd
3rd
Small
Tisaran - Martin Mooney
Derrylamogue - Tom Flanagan Acushla - Eoin Coogan
Medium
Mooneking - David King
Jennalyn - Lyndsey Behan
Rathnashan - Nigel Hogan
Large
Clonagh - Garrett Behan
Kilcloran - Gabriel Macdonald
Anatrim - David Brickley
The club Herds competition
concluded with a wellattended club meeting and
awards party at the Killeshin
Hotel Portlaoise where we
had the pleasure of being
addressed by our newly
elected Society President
William O’Halloran. We look
forward to the 2024 edition
of this new competition and
hopefully welcome more new
entrants.
Pictured at the Herds Competition
presentation were Barry Fleming
Chairman (accepting the Medium
sized Herd award on behalf of
David King, Martin Mooney, William
O`Halloran President and Garrett
Behan
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REGIONAL CLUBS - South Eastern Club
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