A DECISION to stage the Tullamore Show next year, following two years when the show had to be cancelled at the last minute, has been taken by the show committee.
The event, which also features the AIB National Livestock Show, will be moved to a new site just two miles from the Charleville estate, which had hosted the show since its revival in the early 1990s.
The show, the largest of its kind in the country and which attracted over 50,000 people at its height, will now be held on the Butterfield estate at Greatwood, Blueball.
A statement from the show committee said that after the cancellation of the shows over the last two years, it had decided it needed to take major steps to ensure a cancellation would not happen again.
It had been offered several sites in the Tullamore area, but Butterfield was considered the best option because of its road access and elevated site.
Tom Maher, the chairman of the show committee, said the new 250-acre site would offer additional car parking spaces for the event, which will take place on August 9th, 2009.
He thanked the owners of the previous site, the Hutton-Bury family, for their many years of support and said the fact a ring road is being built around Tullamore and near the Charleville site had created problems there.