ASHTON, BALLYCANEW,GOREY, CO.WEXFORD
SHOW UPDATE
The Committee of Gorey Agricultural Show have had to make the unenviable decision and cancel our 2024 show. Despite the best efforts of The Irish Shows Association to allocate us a new date, none of the dates were suitable. July and August are very busy months for our area and unfortunately we have not been able to find a date that suits everybody. It has proven more difficult to postpone/cancel the show than actually run it! Most of our suppliers are booked year on year and most cannot service a new date, as they are fully committed elsewhere. It is most unfortunate for all exhibitors and competitors also as we had a very full schedule of entries, and Gorey Agricultural Show is the first show show for a lot of show people.
However we are confident we made the correct decision on health and safety grounds, this year has been very testing for the farming communituy, we absolutely could not take any risks with regard to the safety of our competitiors, traders, volunteers and our landowners.
We would like to thank our sponsors who have stood by us for 2024 and all who had entries for the Show, we will be starting the refund process shortly. We are hugely grateful to our landowners who have been so obliging over the past month, while we waited to reschedule.
Next years show will be held on the 3rd Saturday of June, which falls on the 21st, and we hope to see you all then.
UPDATE - we are presently trying to secure an alternative date for our Show, and are in communication with The Irish Shows Association, our Landowners and Suppliers. July is a busy month for shows in this area and we are looking towards the end of July now. We are still hopeful of running and will issue an update as soon as a date is confirmed. We would ask that all competitors and trade stand applicants bear with us in the interim.
Following yesterdays decision to postpone Gorey Agricultural Show are liasing with The Irish Shows Association in an effort to secure a new date. We are hopeful that we will have positive news. We are conscious that we were to hold various qualifiers, we hope to be able to run these, and if not they will be redistributed to other shows. In the event of the date not suiting or indeed falling victim to the terrible weather again we will start the refund process. Gorey Show Committee are massively dissapointed that we had to postpone, as such an amount of work and organisation goes into all agricultural shows, but unfortunately the weather was the dictator in this case. Our advice to exhibitors at the moment is to be patient and wait for the Good News!
Entries are now open for Gorey Agricultral Show 2024. All entries are online with the exception of the dog show which can be entered online and on the day. Competitors who have attended before will be familiar with the system and their existing log in details can be used, new competitiors will have to set themselves up on the system.
Gorey Agricultural Show have launched the online schedule and entry system with the kind assistance of our Main Sponsor Tirlan in the Loch Garman Arms last week.
Gorey Agricultural Show has had a variety of homes over the years, Ashton was our location between 1995 to 2009 and now we have returned by kind permission of Mrs Anne Hardy & Family. The Hardy Family are well associated with Gorey Agricultural Show and we are very grateful to them for facilitating us.
Ashton is very well located on the main Gorey to Wexford Road, near exit 23 on the motorway.
We would like to express our thanks to Tirlan who are our main sponsor again this year, and thanks to Chairman of Tirlán, local man John G Murphy for finding time in his schedule for our photoshoot in Ashton. Glanbia is synonymous with Agriculture and well represented locally with branches in Ballycanew & Kilmuckridge.
This year’s show will take place on the 15th June, our committee are working very hard behind the scenes to ensure that this year’s show will be bigger and better. Having had no agricultural shows for 2 years our 2022 and 2023 shows were a great success and very well attended, we are confident that this years show will surpass last year. We pride ourselves on providing a fun filled family day out, with equestrian classes, cattle & sheep showing, craft competitions, pets corner, dog show, vintage and amusements. Our schedule is available online at www.goreyagriculturalshow.com where you can enter online. Closing date for entries is 7th June.
We are currently taking bookings for trade stands, please see the Trade Stand Tab at the top of the page. Please check the contacts page if you have a query, each section has a number you can call.
The Scarecrow competition was new last year, sponsored by Clone Agricultural Consultants we are hoping that this class will appeal to the 'field artists' out there and are hopeful of lots of entries. It's open to all so we are expecting a great display.
Keep and eye on this site and our Facebook page for updates. We are also planning a sustainability section, hugely relevant in these times, if you have ideas for a business or are an existing business please get in touch with us.
Horse Shows, Dog Shows, Food Tent, Live Music and Dancing, Competitions, Arts & Craft, Amusements, Vintage, Pony Games, Cattle & Sheep Showing, Children's Competitions, Pets Corner, Poultry. All classes this year are enter online, you must register online with the Vintage section to be allocated a space, the only section where you can enter on the field is the dog show.
