The Great Game Fairs of Ireland

Organised by the most experienced Game Fair organising team in the world!

The Irish Game Fair concept was launched at a meeting in Royal Ulster Yacht Club in 1978 when the late Major William Brownlow, Stanley Scott, Michael Dickey and Albert Titterington met with Donald Hoy, the land agent of Clandeboye Estate, Bangor to launch the first major Irish Game Game Fair. This momentous occasion in Irish country sports history has led to the development of a number of Game & Country Fairs since the very the first Irish Game Fair at Clandeboye Estate in June 1979. There are now a number of Game and Country Fairs spread throughout Ireland but for 2009 there will only be two "Great Game Fairs of Ireland".

The Irish Game Fair & Country Lifestyle Festival

27th & 28th June 2009 at Shanes Castle, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

It is not only country sports people in Ireland who recognise that the award winning Irish Game Fair & Country Lifestyle Festival, organised by the most experienced and innovative Irish Game Fair organising team, is a worthy "second generation" successor to the original Irish Game Fair and currently one of the two premier game and country fairs in Ireland but also tourism and marketing professionals. See www.irishgamefair.com/award.asp

Its venue Shanes Castle, has a superbly central location in Northern Ireland with excellent access from all parts of Ireland and a history of delivering crowds and highly successful events.

In 2009 the event will have unrivalled prizes, prize money and commemorative medals for all the competitive events and should further enhance the event's image as the event of choice for country sports competitions.

For further details of not only Northern Ireland's largest Game Fair but much, much more visit www.irishgamefair.com

The Irish Game and Country Fair,

22nd & 23rd August 2009 Birr Castle, Co Offaly, Republic of Ireland

Birr Castle, situated in the centre of Ireland was the location of some of the most successful game and country fairs in the ROI. In 2007 with the cancellation of the National Country Fair it was decided that a new sustainable National Irish Game Fair should be staged at Birr.

To that end Albert and Irene Titterington, from the original Game Fair organising team (and also organisers of the successful Town & Country Fairs at Slane Castle, Co Meath) joined up with David Wilkinson (Director of previous Fairs at Birr, and Markree) and Philip Lawton (well known for his main arena expertise at quite a few Fairs in Ireland) to form a "dream" team to launch a new Irish Game Fair.

The 2007 Fair was a huge success in terms of all of the parameters of success i.e. a superb venue; superb prizes and competitions; a good range of trade stands who did unrivalled business and a fantastic overall attendance. In just one year the Fair delivered a performance on a par with its partner Fair in Northern Ireland and in 2008 arguably became the premier Game Fair in Ireland. See www.irishgameandcountryfair.com

In both 2007 and 2008 the two Fairs reinforced their premier position in the market place and fully justified their branding as "The Great Game Fairs of Ireland".