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The Irish National Flying Club Y/Bird and Old Hens Nationals were held last Friday 12th September. Liberated at 7.50am after a two day hold over as the result of rain in one area of the route one day and obviously as the band of bad weather moved over it prevented a liberation the second day. So wit...

The Friendship Nat birds were released in Quimper (France) at 6.15am in a Lt NW wind on Saturday 12th July. 155 members sent 605 birds competing for pools and prizes of £4,256 and a Tipes ETS Clock. Approx distance Portadown 458 miles, Coleraine 502 miles. Just one bird has been confirmed on the day...

The INFC had a massive entry of 2,585 birds competing for the Kings Cup, the best entry for a number of years, the 745 members from across Ireland were racing for pools and prizes exceeding £37,000 plus a Bricon ETS Timing system. The prizes list has been extended to 250 positions, lets hope they ar...

The INFC Yearling Nat was flown on Thursday after a one day delay due to a band of heavy rain on the route, the 4,173 birds competing for £35,800 were released at 7.30am in a North West wind. Around 400 birds were timed on the day and the overall winner has been timed in the Wexford area by Owen Kir...

The birds were held in Skibbereen on both Wednesday and Thursday due to weather problems at the race-point, conditions improved on Friday 30th May and release was possible at 12.30pm in an ENE wind. Hutchinson Bros from Ashfield have won 1st Open INFC beating the Doonan & McGuinness team from Dr...

The 64th Annual General Meeting of the NIPA was held in Glenavy on Saturday 14th February an added attraction was a sale for Joe & Mark Brown from Dollingstown who sold their complete team of young birds in under 8 minutes, must be the quickest ever sale held in Glenavy. The lads wish to thank a...

The 64th Annual General Meeting of the NIPA was held in Glenavy on Saturday an added attraction was a sale for Joe & Mark Brown from Dollingstown who sold their complete team of young birds in under 8 minutes, must be the quickest ever sale held in Glenavy. The lads wish to thank all fanciers wh...

The 59th Annual General Meeting will be held in the Lagan Valley Leisure Plex, Lisburn Leisure Park, Governor Road, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, on Saturday 7th March 2009 @ 2.00 p.m. sharp. Agenda: 1 Minutes of the 2008 A.G.M. 2 Secretary’s report. 3 Convoyers Race Reports 2008. 4 Passing of accounts. 5 El...

Let’s hope it’s third time lucky for this year’s INFC/BHW Single Bird Challenge. There was probably nobody any more disappointed than ourselves when for the second year in succession the King’s Cup did not take place, but let me assure everyone that the whole INFC committee are doing everything in t...

The results for 2008 will be listed shortly, one step at a time.

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