SPECTATOR numbers at last week’s Balmoral Show were boosted by a cohort of 111 people on study tours in Ireland through Equipeople.

On Friday, 37 members of 4H young farmers’ clubs from all over Canada and a group of 32 students and lecturers from Penn State University in the United States attended the show. On Saturday, it was the turn of 42 members of Challenging Pioneers, who are a group of families with Irish descent living in Newfoundland, Canada. For 4H and Challenging Pioneers, Balmoral was the centrepiece of their visits to Ireland.