The Gorey Agricultural Show is one of the highlights on the calendar for many people…
The Gorey Agricultural Show, which attracts tonnes of people annually to the town and neighbouring communities, was due to take place in June 2024. However, due to the adverse weather conditions, the organisers decided to postpone the event to a future date.
Unfortunately, a new date could not be agreed that suits everybody and therefore, the Gorey Agricultural Show for 2024 has been cancelled.
The committee members and organisers of the show released a statement following its cancellation:
“The Committee of Gorey Agricultural Show have had to make the unenviable decision and cancel our 2024 show. Despite the best efforts of The Irish Shows Association to allocate us a new date, none of the dates were suitable. July and August are very busy months for our area and unfortunately we have not been able to find a date that suits everybody. It has proven more difficult to postpone/cancel the show than actually run it! Most of our suppliers are booked year on year and most cannot service a new date, as they are fully committed elsewhere. It is most unfortunate for all exhibitors and competitors also as we had a very full schedule of entries, and Gorey Agricultural Show is the first show show for a lot of show people.
However we are confident we made the correct decision on health and safety grounds, this year has been very testing for the farming communituy, we absolutely could not take any risks with regard to the safety of our competitiors, traders, volunteers and our landowners.
We would like to thank our sponsors who have stood by us for 2024 and those competitors who had entries for the Show, we will be starting the refund process shortly. We are hugely grateful to our landowners who have been so obliging over the past month, while we waited to reschedule.”
They also revealed that they have already confirmed next year’s show date. Next year’s show will be held on Saturday 21st of June 2025.
Jason Redmond
From Gorey, Jason is the owner of Wexford Weekly. He is also a post-primary English and History teacher.
