Susan Finnerty

FANS of RTÉ’s ‘ICA Bootcamp’ will be delighted to hear that Josephine Helly, one of the hit programme’s stars, was the guest of honour at the Irish Shows Association’s yearbook launch recently in Hannons Hotel, Roscommon.

A piece of ISA history was also created in this photo taken with Josephine, as it includes no less than seven of the association’s former presidents – Paddy Joe Foy, John O’Hara, Jim Harrison, Michael Hughes, John Browne, Jim Stanley and its first lady president, Dorothea Lazenby, together with current chairman, Pat Corbett, from Clonaslee.

Copies of this invaluable guide to the agricultural show calendar and list of judges are now available from Michael Hughes, ISA Secretary, Pinegrove Mountbellew, Co Galway, priced at €10 p&p, online at www.irishshows.org or obtained from local show secretaries.