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E D C 11-04-14

 

EAST DOWN COMBINE

Reports by Clifford Browne

EDC hold successful breeder/buyer

With only days to go until the first race the East Down Combine Breeder/Buyer sale was held in Magee’s Lounge in Crossgar on Friday April 4th when the 47 young birds for sale raised £1750. This will be raced for by participating birds from the first Young Bird Skibbereen Derby on August 30th 2014.

Thanks to the team behind the running of this event: Dorothy Smyth, Rodney McCormick, Doley Croskery & John Kirk and thanks also to Sean Milligan for supplying the pens. Thanks to all who supported the event with birds from the Ulster Fed, NIPA and the Scottish fanciers of the Ayrshire Fed and also our own Combine members as Magee’s was well filled with fanciers on the night.

East Down 2B News

The 2bird club is looking forward to the 2014 season and sponsorship for the league competitions has been supplied by H Beattie & son, Robert Kirkwood and Pigeon Vitality. We will have more on this later in the season and thanks to all of them for their generosity.

Finally for this week the EDC have a new website and it is well worth visiting and will have all EDC news, liberations etc. So with word just through that basketing for Mullingar will go ahead as planned on Friday night I hope this time next week to have a full result of the first race of 2014.

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