The 2025 Balmoral show underway at Balmoral Park. Balmoral Show 2025: Showcase of Northern Ireland welcomes JCB Dancing Diggers and full size dinosaur
As well as the normal showpiece of the finest of Northern Ireland agriculture, this year's Balmoral Show will boast a troupe of dancing JCB diggers and a full size, roaring dinosaur
As well as the normal showpiece of the finest of Northern Ireland agriculture, this year's Balmoral Show will boast a troupe of dancing JCB diggers and a full size, roaring dinosaur
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00:00This is Rhonda Geary, Operations Director with the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society.
00:06Rhonda, you're holding the whole show together here. It's the first morning of Balmoral 2025.
00:11Can you give us a wee idea what the highlights are going to be today for the general visitors?
00:15Yeah, well as we kick off today on our first day, it's our beef cattle judging day. So
00:19if you're here and you have a look around our cattle lawns, they'll be full of the great big
00:23beef cattle, a real spectacle. And then on around to our sheep with a full complement of sheep
00:28classes today as well, really to get the whole show going. I mean, the livestock's out in full
00:33flourish. When you look in our main arena then this morning, we have our national show jumping classes
00:37and then international classes this afternoon. And the JCB Dancing Diggers, our main arena attraction
00:43this year, they'll be performing twice today as well on our main arena. 12.30 and 3pm. That's
00:48correct, yes. And we'll not neglect to give the dinosaurs mention? Absolutely not. I mean,
00:53you wouldn't know what you'll find at Balmoral between Wallabies over in our kids farm
00:56and the dinosaur display down at the Glen Park area, down beside the pigs and goats. That's
01:03a lovely display. And how are the pigs coping with the dinosaurs so far? I don't think they've seen
01:07them yet. So that might be quite interesting when they come out to play this afternoon. So just for
01:11anyone who's not in the picture, these are four full-scale dinosaur models, animated and with
01:16realistic noises. They are indeed, yes. It's just a sample of what's to come at the Glen Park estate
01:21in future months. Rhonda, thanks very much. I hope everything goes really well this year. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
01:32And second place Fennie, we have Steve Boa, our our friend's people.
01:36Strip.
01:37We're around the 70th.
01:39We're around the 70th.
01:40We're around the 50th.
01:42We're around the 70th.
01:45And then, we're going to have a new department.
01:47We're on the 50th.
01:48We're on the 50th.
01:50We're at the 50th.