{"id":504971,"date":"2026-06-17T21:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504971\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:56:10","slug":"athlone-to-host-texel-all-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504971\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlone to host Texel All-Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish Texel Sheep Society will stage this year\u2019s Growvite All-Ireland finals on Sunday 21 June at the Athlone<br \/>\nAgricultural Show. <\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 50th anniversary  of the finals, with a superb entry of over 200 Texels from leading flocks right across<br \/>\nthe country.<\/p>\n<p>Taking on the unenviable task of judging this year\u2019s competition is George Wilkinson of the renowned Arkle flock in England. <\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson for the society: \u201cGeorge is really looking forward to the event, having been very impressed by the quality of sheep he saw at last year\u2019s Premier Sale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judging will commence at 10am, with a refreshment break during the day \u2013 so be sure to go along and enjoy the wonderful hospitality of the Irish<br \/>\nTexel Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Texel Sheep Society will stage this year\u2019s Growvite All-Ireland finals on Sunday 21 June at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[215805,215804,121275,61,60,5907,215809,43,215803,215806,215807,24117,1018,215808],"class_list":["post-504971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breeders","tag-breeding-health","tag-flock","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-more","tag-nevan-mckiernan","tag-news","tag-pedigree","tag-pedigree-breeders","tag-pedigree-breeding","tag-sheep","tag-shows","tag-texel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504971","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=504971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}