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SECONDS DECIDE - NIPA Fermoy 5 Bird Championship What a difference a week makes, to the weather anyhow, following summer like conditions the week before it was a definite change in conditions for the NIPA Fermoy 5 Bird event and the subsequent cross channel Bude that was to be flown on the same date...

NATIONAL SUCCESS FOR DROMORE LOFTS 　 With much of the U.K and surprisingly Northern Ireland also basking in glorious sun-shine all of last week, it was without any doubt the best racing conditions of the O/Bird campaign thus far, with some fanciers getting an early tan rather than early pigeons. The...

GIBB’S CHOICE’ LEADS THE WAY FOR RICKY McCULLOUGH Having scribed for the Lisburn and indeed Section D area for a number of years now, and with an avalanche of previous material going back some 40 years available at my father’s home, something tells me I won’t require same to tell you that it has bee...

EXCELLENT CLONMEL ALTERNATIVE FOR THE MIGHTY NIPA Once again the NIPA Race Committee lead from the front, working with the help of various sources for weather info etc, they decided from the offset mid week that the planned race from Pilmore Beach was a no go and opted for Fermoy instead. With Weath...

EXCELLENT O/BIRD NATIONAL EVENT FROM ROSSCARBERY With strict collection times in place at the NIPA Centres on Thursday for the first of the National events for the Mighty NIPA, a race was very much on the cards for the following morning from one of the furthest possible race points in the South of ...

Tommy Still Rocks 70 Years On!! When a fancier has been involved with pigeons for seventy years, he can certainly brag about having seen it all, including having had the privilege of racing against some of the greatest names ever to race pigeons just not into the Portadown area but all over Norther...

Tight Finish for Section D Honours from Clonmel For the fourth race of the NIPA O/Bird programme, the NIPA transporters headed to Clonmel in County Tipperary. The weather for the May Day Bank Holiday Weekend looked a bit more troublesome than it had been for the previous three races of the O/Bird p...

Gerry O'Mara Fancier of the Year Yet Again For the second year in succession, I had the great honour and privilege of being invited as a quest to the Annual Dinner and Prize Distribution for the largest Federation of pigeon fanciers in Ireland namely the Irish South Road Fed. Their annual dinner an...

Combine Fancier of the Year for Nelson Weir Now that the rush surrounding Xmas work wise and Blackpool 2010 is over, I now have the opportunity to catch up with a couple of dinner presentations, namely the Orchard Combine and the Irish South Road Federation (Next Week). Many will be aware that I ha...

Ireland’s Own Pigeon Auctions Present at Blackpool 2010 ‘The Royal Antwerp Collection’ 53 x World Class Lots Bloodlines to include Simply the Best of the Best Soontjens - Marcelis - Meulemans and Hereman Ceusters Saturday 16th January 2010 Venue - The Cliffs Hotel, Queens Promenade, Blackpool Birds...