The Cork Virtual Summer Show is on Saturday July 4th and Sunday July 5th , 2020
Organised by the Munster Agricultural Society, the Cork Summer Show has been running in one form or another for over 200 years, since 1806 but this will be our first ever VIRTUAL Show.
Our events and competitions for are all online events and cover the following categories: Horses, Ponies & Donkeys, Cattle, Sheep, Goats & Pigs, Poultry, Floral Art, Plants & Horticulture, The 10 Minute Cook Off, Arts, Crafts & Baking to include Adult’s hand made crafts, Adult’s Baking , Children’s Crafts and Lego/Duplo and Meccano, Maxi Zoo Pet Show, Agri Innovation Awards, Best Dressed Competitions.
Cork Summer Show 2020 embraces a Virtual stage and opens up to everyone with access to the web, be it via mobile / cellular phone, tablet or computer.
COVID-19 has inspired us to rethink and adapt. This is our first virtual show in 215 years and hopefully it will create a new dynamic dimension, bringing us Cork Virtual Summer Show.
By participating in this new Cork Virtual Summer Show you will be supporting a charity in your local region.
A full list of the chosen charities will be published after the show.
Entry is easy and open to all, no matter if you live in Ireland or New Zealand or in between, all are welcome.
The Cork Virtual Summer Show has been totally focused towards people and their interests, so for the first time we are able to give attention to wider participation and to competitions one could not run in a physical showground.
We are embracing technology to its limits while at the same time ensuring that participants and public all over the globe can now get access to Cork Virtual Summer Show 2020.
I hope you enjoy the competitions and details of timings will be released as the Show unfolds.
Robert C. Harkin,
President.
Munster Agricultural Society