The 2008 FBD Young Farmer of the Year competition is heating up for coveted title as entrants are now in. A considerable interest was shown this year from young farmers. There was a great response to the first year of the nomination process where individuals could nominate a young farmer for the ompetition. Each young farmer has subsequently received an application form to complete and return to the Macra Head Office. The Limerick County Round will take place in August (details to follow) and the National Final on 2nd September in Kilkenny.
Upcoming events:
6th July; North Tipperary Macra at holding a walking treasure hunt in Nenagh. It will commence at 2pm at Banba Square and the cost per team is 20. Contact Mary Guilfoyle on 0872433027 for further details.
6th July; Farm skills semi finals will take place at Bailieboro Show, Cavan and Dunmanway Show, Cork. Limerick contestants will participate at Dunmanway Show. The top three teams will qualify for the final a the Tullamore Show on August 10th.
12th-13th July Know Your NeighbourWeekend;. 13th July; a national fun-filled family event will take place Marley Park, Dublin between 2-5pm.
Callan Macra of Co. Kilkenny are organising a 26 County fundraising Tractor Drive from 15th to 20th of July, in aid of Lifeline, a Suicide Awareness organisation. The aim of the tractor drive is to give national exposure and financial help to this important organisation and to highlight the issue of suicide awareness and prevention. The group will be travelling through Co. Limerick on 15th and 16th July. They will visit the towns of Dromcolliher, NewCastle West and Abbeyfeale before travelling on Tarbert to take the Shannon ferry across to Co. Clare. Your support would be greatly appreciated during the trip. The group are currently looking for a location to leave the tractors near Abbeyfeale on 15th and if you can help, please contact Niall Quinlan on 0851208090 or at callanmacra@gmail.com
31st July; closing date for applications for AIB Club of the Year and Best New Member.
At last Spain the unachievers have won a trophy, as long i have followed soccer since 1970 i have seen Spanish teams with some of the Worlds greatest players basically bottle it when it came to the big stage .There are many reasons why this would have occurred politically divided within etc. Eamon Dumphy RTE pundit described Spain as a beautiful country, great people and culture in his delight at seem them winning Euros 2008.I Myself would share the same opinion as Eamon, down through the years i had families who’s son’s and daughters visited us to learn english from all parts of Spain ,and the return visits this is the way you get to know what Spainish are about .The Catalans from Barcelona,The Basques in Northern Spain,Madrid the Capital. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sp.html#Geo
I have had the experience of having two students one from Madrid and one from Barcelona sharing the same room for a while ,we are not at war they said but there are differences ,when Barcelona and Madrid play each other well it’s almost a war.It is Interesting that this Spainish winning team has Catalans Fabregas (Arsenal),Iniesta,Xavi Hernández, Puyol from Barcelona F.C all who have had a tremedous tournament,combine this with Torres,Senna ,Villa and the Real Madrid players Casillas,Sergio Ramos managed by the Luis Aragonés who has seemed to unite Spain with this win. The problem i now face is all those telphone calls to Spain but well done to them.
