Class 1 - Qualifier – The All Ireland Gun Dog Championship (Restricted to Gun Dog varieties, handlers must be over 16yrs)
Class 2 – Small Dog
Class 3 – Medium Dog
Class 4 – Large Dog
Class 5 – Best Junior Handler Under 16yrs
Class 6 – Best Dressed Dog
Class 7 – Best Trick
Class 8 – Dog I’d most like to take home
Class 9 – Pet Show (open to any animal other than dog)
Class 10 - Championship
Entry Fees
Qualifier €9
Class 5 €3
Classes 2 - 9 €5
No fee for championship – entry restricted to the winners of classes
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The boring stuff....
ALL DOGS MUST HAVE A COLLAR
WITH THE NAME & ADDRESS OF OWNER
DOG LEASHING, MUZZLING AND ID TAG LAWS.
(The leashing and muzzling laws only apply to a “public place” in the Control of Dogs Act 1986, this means any street, road, seashore, park, land, field, or other place to which the public have access, whether by right or by permission, and whether subject to or free of charge.)
The laws regarding dogs under the Control of Dogs Regulations 1998 came into operation on the 1st February 1999.
(1) This article shall apply to every: –
American Pitt Bull Terrier
Bull Mastiff
Doberman Pinscher
English Bull Terrier
German Shepherd (Alsatian)
Japanese Akita
Japanese Tose
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Rottweiler
Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and to every dog of the type commonly known as a Ban Dog (or Bandog) and to every other strain or cross of every breed or type of dog described in this article.
(2) A person shall not permit a dog to which this article applies to be in a public place unless such dog is: –
securely muzzled; and
(ii) Being led by a sufficiently string chain or leash, no exceeding two meters in length, by a person over the age of sixteen years who is capable of controlling the said dog.
Identification of Ownership of Dogs.
6 (1) The owner or other person in charge of a dog shall ensure that such dog shall at all times wear a collar bearing the name and address of the owner inscribed thereon, or on a plate, badge or disc attached thereto.
(2) No person shall in any manner alter, deface, mutilate or render illegible the particulars
prescribed under sub-article (1) to be inscribed on a collar to be worn by a dog, or on a
plate, badge or disc to be attached thereto, which has been altered, defaced, mutilated or
rendered illegible as aforesaid or upon which the particulars have become illegible.
A breach of any provision of this article shall be an offence to which Section 28(1) of the Act
applies.