Dog Show Cork Summer Show

I think at this stage the world and his aunty are aware that The Cork Summer Show scheduled for the week end just gone had to be cancelled due to unprecedented rainfall over the last few weeks. According to Joan Blackburn last night on RTE's weather forecast, Cork was the wettest county for the month so far with over 4 times the average rainfall (Tell us something we don't know Joan !!!) You can imagine the disappointment of the event organisers, having to make this extremely difficult decision, after the months upon months of organising that goes into running an event like this. Being involved with the IKC open dog show, that was due to run on the final day of the show, I can empathise with the main event organisers in a small way. For me what makes it even more disappointing, is that as per the blog we posted back in March, Munster Agricultural Society had purchased a sizeable piece of land, which is now the new home for The Cork Summer Show, and it would have bee…