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Robert Benson, the 2015 champion, came with his Diseree. The 2014 champion and 2015 runner-up, Monty Hunter,
The great Paula Hanrahan assembled Team PoPo to help her show off her Irish

The coveted chippy cups

The coveted chippy cups
s each year passes, those humble yet, in their own way, towering cups become ever more coveted…
Yes, they come from all four corners of the globe, all with hope in their hearts and potatoes in their pockets, for the one, and hopefully only, International Spud Festival.
had his Delgany Delicious on display, whilst Angela Crockford – whose daughter, Lucy, won in 2014 – was showing everyone her British Queens. Catching everyone by surprise, George Ryan had British Queens too, whilst Una Moloney was ready to impress the judges with her Golden Wonder and Ann Marie Dolan simply whipped out her Checkers.
Cobblers, whilst Billy Wildes went all exotic with his Red Sheikh whilst both Martina Breen happily took out her British Queens and Roderick Jones invited everyone to try his Kidney Spuds.
As the judges retired to their special Adjudicating & Inebriating room, the anticipation mounted. Then it waned a little. Then Caroline from the Horse & Hound went to get changed. And then the anticipation mounted a little bit again. Especially when your man off the telly showed up to call out the winners…
Father Dougal would have loved it…