SHOWING coverage began in April, when Cavan played host to the Northern Ireland Festival. Debbie Harrod’s middleweight hunter Bloomfield Valhalla and Tony Bell’s Shetland stallion Wiknors Gryffindor were early supreme horse and pony champions in 2024.

The first casualty of the agricultural show season was Newmarket-on-Fergus, due to wet ground conditions. The Banner County show was rescheduled for June.