{"id":171558,"date":"2025-12-02T19:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171558\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:49:17","slug":"from-packed-pubs-to-e33k-heifers-the-rural-phenomenon-youve-probably-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171558\/","title":{"rendered":"From packed pubs to \u20ac33k heifers: The rural phenomenon you\u2019ve probably never heard of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Packed pubs, sold-out hotels, a run on steak, \u20ac1.5m spent on weanling heifers to a top of \u20ac33,500&#8230; \u2018for anyone interested in breeding or showing cattle, or even people who just appreciate top-quality stock, this is our version of the Ploughing\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Customers at McHugh's bar in Carrick could keep an eye on the show with a live feed from the Showgrounds. Photos: Gerry Faughnan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/il cari.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Customers at McHugh&#8217;s bar in Carrick could keep an eye on the show with a live feed from the Showgrounds. Photos: Gerry Faughnan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A silence so complete you could hear a penny drop. And then the hammer fell: \u20ac33,500, the kind of money that once belonged only in pedigree sales, not a commercial ring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It left many onlookers questioning whether Carrick Winter Fair has entered an even crazier financial dimension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packed pubs, sold-out hotels, a run on steak, \u20ac1.5m spent on weanling heifers to a top of \u20ac33,500&#8230;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[94738,20497,72,52079,20498,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-171558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-beef-farm-profiles","9":"tag-beef-prices","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-catherina-cunnane","12":"tag-cattle-mart-trade","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}