IT might have been a while since we saw it, but the sun did make an appearance at the Wicklow Summer Show in Barnadown on Sunday and it was greatly appreciated by all those who attended, with the sunny southeast living up to its name.

The Tattersalls Ireland Showing Pathway Series has proved hugely popular this season to date and, with it getting close to the end of the qualifiers, there is great hunger for the few remaining ‘golden tickets’ to the final in September.