Dublin Show 2012 - T & K Mawhinney win BIS etc

[willie reynolds]

Dublin Show 2012 – The Dublin Racing Pigeon Show Society held their annual Charity Show on Saturday 3rd November, in the Irish Kennel Club Exhibition Centre beside Dublin Airport. I was delayed in getting down and missed the prize presentation, birds for this had been penned on the Friday evening. The big early rush had died down and for a change there were plenty of parking spaces. Another very good day weather wise, would have helped the attendance, although I don’t think just as many had travelled down from the North. All the main awards were taken back once again to Northern Ireland with the T & K Mawhinney team from Donaghcloney who have a record without equal winning yet again, the Best in Show, Best Opposite Sex and Most Points in Show. The husband and wife team took 6 x 1sts but will need to watch out with Billy Hobbs winning 5 x 1sts in his best ever show result. Timmy was telling me his Blue Cheq was just on its second show, and a sister of this bird won BOS.

The winners were: Class 1. Old Cock Flown Channel – T & K Mawhinney, Class 2. Old Hen Flown Channel – Mark Byrne, Class 3. Old Cock Flown – Derek Cummins, Class 4. Old Hen Flown – Keegan Darling, Class 5. Young Cock Flown –T & K Mawhinney, Class 6. Young Hen Flown – T & K Mawhinney, Any Age Cock/Hen Eyesign – W & N Gilbert, Class 8. Old Cock T/W – Brown & Shaw, Class 9. Old Hen T/W – T & K Mawhinney, Class 10. Young Hen T/W – Billy Hobbs, Class 11. Young Cock T/W – Billy Hobbs, Class 12. Matched Pairs – Chris Shaw, Class 13. Colour Class – Billy Hobbs, Class 14. Any Age Cock Un-flown – T & K Mawhinney, Class 15. Any Age Hen Un-flown – T & K Mawhinney, Class 16. Late Bred (One last Flight) – Chris Shaw, Class 17. Show Racer Old Cock – Billy Hobbs, Class 18. Show Racer Old Hen – Billy Hobbs, Class 19. Show Racer Young Cock R Wiggins, Class 20. Show Racer Young Hen – Rouke & Christy.

Northern Ireland lofts done well with wins for T & K Mawhinney, W & N Gilbert, Brown & Shaw, Chris Shaw, R Wiggins and Rouke & Christy. All in all another fantastic event and well done to the Committee, President Eugene Fitzgerald, Secretary Mick O’Driscoll, Treasurer Jay Byrne plus G Daly, K Darling and M O’Connor.