Ballinlough Game Fair Co. Westmeath

varmintmaster

€15 adult entry to a practical garden fete rather than a game fair was robbery....took less than ten minutes round trip from the car to exit again....

Spunk84

flanum wrote: »

absolute disgrace of a game fair! mate of mine got escorted out by security on saturday because he was walking around with a box of ferrets!! he was told he had to leave because he didnt have a trade stand and.... he was seen last year selling ferrets.... which is an absolute lie because i was with him last year and he didnt even own any ferrets until a few months ago!! the man was with his wife, 2 childer and elderly mother... he wasnt even allowwed to wait for them in the field car park, they made him drive out of the perimeter while he frantically tried to ring them to tell them they had to leave and meat him half a mile away... absolute disgrace... was this country not formulated on handshakes at country and town fairs over the last several hundred years??? is that not the spirit of the country fair??

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id went for one of them if they started that ****e in front of my family, bunch of wannabes running around it. So what if he was selling them. I know the trade stands have to pay to be there but a man with a few ferrets wont make that much anyways.

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Sparks

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blackstairsboy

EPointer=Birdss wrote: »

Should post a link to this thread on the fair website
Or better still on the Birr one as a pre-warning to the disgruntled hunting enthusiasts of Ireland if the fair is not ran properly

Anyone been to the UK fairs? Are they good & if so what's better/ different about them??

Ps that ferret story is ridiculous. Typical sterile Ireland. I would have to be brought out in a paddy wagon before I'd ask my family to walk out to the main road. Security could escort me around til I met them if they liked!

I travelled over to the CLA last year with 2 friends. Had a brilliant weekend spent 2 days walking around and I did not see it all. Think ploughing match scale but bigger. All great quality goods for sale at very reasonable prices and most will haggle ( Just say you came the whole way from Ireland and you will get good deals;)) Have a look at their website and look at the list of exhibitors which is well over a thousand. I think campsite, boat, tickets, petrol split three ways worked out at 300e so not cheap but definitely worth every penny. I am definitely going next year.
http://www.gamefair.co.uk/ Thats the link to the site.

Antoennis

I had a good time at the fair but in fairness i just really enjoyed meeting people from here and from our other social links. Thanks to all who came to say hello:-) always great to meet readers. The organisers of Birr have seen what people think and have made changes i hear. As for the traders allot of them do increase the prices hugely for southern game fairs. I know of a handful that just charge the same as the stg price but this isn't the same for them all. Come to my stand at Birr i'll have a few bargains. Also go on your phone and check the prices on the business websites while at the stand and tell them if there is a huge difference. It really pisses them off!!:D

sporting shot

sporting shot wrote: »

Hi guys,

I was there on Saturday and as you all said, very little there. Shot the compact sporting and it was good fun. My better half said she'd have a go at it too as according to their web-site "There is also a special prize for the top lady shooter each day". Well as it turned out she won the ladies. And her special prize was to be told she won it, given a hand shake and her photo taken!!!

I mean dont get me wrong, we didnt go for that, but it was a little disappointing for there to be a bid deal made and stated on the web-site and thats all it was! Or maybe that was the special prize!!!!

Hi guys,

Just a quick note of thanks to the guys from Ballinlough Game fair. I sent a query regarding the above and in their defence, they weren't aware the prize wasnt given out for the ladies (It was the guys running the shootings' over-sight). But once made aware of the situation they have sorted it straight away! So thanks to them for that!

Also thanks to them for my free tickets I won through their facebook page! So after the better experience, I will go back next year!