Programme For ‘Live Stream’ Virtual Game Fair announced
Programme For ‘Live Stream’ THE VIRTUAL GAME FAIR 28-29 August,10.30 -15.30
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Antrim and Newtownabbey Mayor supports the Virtual Game Fair
Antrim and Newtownabbey Mayor supports the Virtual Game Fair, Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th August,
The Virtual Game Fair is going LIVE
The Virtual Game Fair is STREAMING LIVE from the Cranley Hill Studio on Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th August,
Public vote for the best gundog retrieve
View gundog retrieving videos on the Virtual Game Fair YouTube Channel and cast your vote to win ticks to the LIVE IRISH GAME FAIR
YouTube Competition: Make your mark for Country Sports
Competition: Make your mark for Country Sports onThe Virtual Game Fair YouTube Channel
Horse and Donkey winners announced
Winners of The Virtual Game Fair Horse Drawn Vehicle Championships, sponsored by Toggi and Red Mills and staged in association with the Whip & Collar Club and the Donkey Breed Society NI.
The ‘Bard of Ballymena’!
Seamus Erwin wins the Virtual Game Fair’s first country sports writing competition.
Gundog Rescue Winners
The winners of The Gundog Rescue & Rehoming Virtual Gundog Show have been announced.
Seamus Erwin writes a winner!
The inaugural Virtual Game Fair writing competition has certainly brought the poets out of the closet with both winner and runner-up submitting poems.
Winning Sticks Announced
The Winners have been announced for The Virtual Game Fair Carved Stick Making Championship.
The Gundog Show
This competition is OPEN NOW as a photographic competition on the Gundog Rescue & Rehoming Facebook Group. Please include ‘VGF Gundog Competition in your post and say something about your dog and picture.
Virtual Game Fair Horse Drawn Vehicle Championships
Virtual Game Fair Horse Drawn Vehicle Championships, sponsored by Toggi and Red Mills and staged in association with the Whip & Collar Club and the Donkey Breed Society NI.
Terrier Lurcher and Whippet Championship winners
The winners of The Virtual Game Fair Charity Terrier, Lurcher and Whippet Championships have been announced…
Winners of Taxidermy Competition announced
The winners of the Taxidermy Association of Ireland Virtual Game Fair Championships have been announced…
Competitions coming soon
Look out for new competitions at The Virtual Game Fair, coming soon. If you’re not in, you can’t win…
The Irish Salmon Fly Tying Championships organised by FISSTA
The Irish Salmon Fly Tying Championships organised by FISSTA and hosted by The Virtual Game Fair is open.
Novice Stalker Competition Winner Announced
Raymond O’Reilly is the winner of The VIRTUAL GAME FAIR Novice Stalker Competition.
VIRTUAL GAME FAIR Hallowe’en Draw
Win an overnight stay at the Holiday Inn, Antrim with the VIRTUAL GAME FAIR.
Camilla and Charlie are the winning team!
Declan Feeney’s Camilla and Charlie, working to finish off the hay using a single horse reaper stole the winning place in the inaugural Donkey Breed Virtual Competition.
Stick Carving Championship Launched at VIRTUAL GAME FAIR
The VIRTUAL GAME FAIR Stick Carving Championship is OPEN FOR ENTRIES NOW.
Winner of Virtual Game Fair Promotion Draw Announced
Eddie Sloan has been announced as the winner of the prize promotional draw for those helping us to share the news of another great FREE resource for Irish country sports enthusiasts – THE VIRTUAL GAME FAIR
Noddyvyse Prestige wins inaugural Whip & Collar Virtual Game Fair Show
Edwin Wylie’s Noddyvyse Prestige, driven to a hackney viceroy by Gillian McNinch has been named winner of the Inaugural Virtual Game Fair horse drawn vehicle show.
Terrier, Lurcher & Whippet Charity Championships
THE VIRTUAL GAME FAIR’s First Terrier, Lurcher & Whippet Charity Championships, organised by Mourne Sport Dog Club and sponsored by Smyths Country Sports, the Irish Country Sports & Country Life magazine, Marwalsh & Feedwell is OPEN FOR ENTRIES.
Red Mills Gundog Training Video Competition Launched
THE VIRTUAL GAME FAIR is calling on gundog trainers to share their best training or competition moments on video in a brand new competition that will run until the end of the game shooting season when a new competition will start.
Novice Stalker Competition
THE VIRTUAL GAME FAIR brings you a unique competition for a novice stalker or someone who wishes to upskill.
Taxidermy Association of Ireland Virtual Game Fair Championships
The Taxidermy Association of Ireland Virtual Game Fair Championships has four categories: Novice Bird; Novice Mammal; Professional Bird; Professional Mammal.
Write Your Way to Country Sports Acclaim
THE VIRTUAL GAME FAIR has launched a new competition for budding country sports authors. We’re looking for storytellers who can capture the ‘giant spirit’ of country sports and the sporting way of life, bringing the place and the experience to life on the page.
The Virtual Game Fair is ‘Your Place and Mine’
The time is 8 – 9 am, the place is right there in your kitchen, listening to BBC Radio Ulster’s Your Place and Mine’, presented by Anne Marie McAleese. The topic? The Virtual Game Fair.
Local MP endorses Virtual Game Fair
VIRTUAL GAME FAIR organiser, Albert Titterington, was delighted to receive a handwritten House of Commons message from Jim Shannon, MP, one of the greatest supporters of, and a tremendous advocate for, country sports in Ireland.
OUT NOW! The Irish Country Sports & Country Life magazine Autumn 2020 Edition
The Irish Country Sports & Country Life magazine Autumn 2020 Edition is OUT NOW in shops and on-line.
Attractions galore at THE VIRTUAL GAME FAIR
Many of the attractions normally taking place at Shanes Castle will be replicated live in socially distanced environments and videoed as previews of what can be seen at Shanes 2021
Living History at the Great Game Fairs of Ireland
One of the most colourful facets of the Irish Game Fair is the Living History Festival co-ordinated by George Logan from Living History Ireland .
COMING SOON
THE VIRTUAL GAME FAIR has many more competitions coming soon. Keep visiting to find out what’s happening when…
Celebrating Irish Country Sports and Country Life
The IRISH COUNTRYSPORTS & COUNTRY LIFE magazine is celebrating 35 years of publication from its launch as Irish Hunting, Shooting & Fishing in 1985.