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Scenes from last year’s Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Stena Line Dublin Horse Show

Enjoy horses?

Fancy a free day out?

Read on.

Nicole Osborne writes:

This year’s Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Stena Line Dublin Horse Show takes place from the 7th-11th August at the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

With over 1,500 horses and ponies, 135 competitions, it’s one of the stand out events of the summer!

And making it extra special this year is the 100th anniversary of Ladies’ Day.

Not just a day for hats and gúnas, but a day for celebrating women in sport, which is how it became known as Ladies Day back in 1919.

A new addition for this year’s Show is the focus on wellness. At the heart of equestrianism is the relationship between the horse and rider. But what can we learn from such relationships?

Equine-assisted therapy is well established around the globe and this year visitors can hear from experts in this area and how to bring some of their learnings into your own life.

Expanding on this theme, BEO Wellness will bring a wealth of speakers on all manner of areas from food, to fitness, to style, fitting in perfectly with Ladies’ Day at the Show.

The Show has plenty more to offer visitors with some boutique fashion and craft offerings alongside equine products, from both home and abroad….

We have THREE (yes, three) Pairs of tickets to attend the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Stena Line Dublin Horse Show on any day.

To enter, Just tell us your first memory of the Horse Show.

Lines MUST close at 3.15pm EXTENDED until 6.15pm MIDNIGHT! 3AM

Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Stena Line Dublin Horse Show

Last Monday, with a bottle of Chinnery Dublin Dry Gin to literally giveaway, YOU were asked to tell us why you deserve the hooch

You entered in your thirsty tens.

Runners up:

class wario: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin especially at this time owing to the fact it’s been oolong since I’ve had a drink!

Bisted: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin as friends of mine once had a racehorse called Comrade Chinnery…a gin called Chinnery might just finish the process of ruination…

Scottser: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin especially at this time owing to my secret life as a Victorian prostitute ‘Ello Dearie, fancy a good time, my lovely?’ *raises petticoats and jiggles ankle seductively*

Fluffybiscuits: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin especially at this time owing to a weekend of sin, caused by gin, which left me with a grin, a bloke’s heart I might win…so Chinnery…am I in?

Daisy Chainsaw: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin. I DON’T HAVE TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO YOU.

Winner:

Kolmo: I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin especially at this time owing to our office Air-Con not functionin’, 9 people, 10 computers, pungent lunch choices, ’tis a sin for it smells like a bin, It truly smells like a bin. As we sit in this airless 28 degree cage, I scroll through the Broadsheet front page, Lo! this situation we are in could be eased with a win of a bottle of Chinnery Gin.

Thanks all.

Sip Responsibly.

Last week This Calls For A Chinnery

Chinnery Gin

Thanks Leah


From top: George Chinnery and the gin which takes his name

Like art?

Enjoy gin?

Read on.

Leah Kilcullen writes:

Chinnery Gin is inspired by Dublin and the Old China Trade, with defining flavours of osmanthus flower and oolong tea.

The name comes from George Chinnery, a Georgian-era portrait artist who lived in Dublin, before setting sail for India and later China.

His work from Canton is considered part of the historical record of the Old China Trade, but his time in Dublin is largely forgotten.

We are delighted to be working with the Chester Beatty Library for a talk by George Chinnery biographer and East Asian trade art specialist Dr Patrick Conner, to delve into the artist behind our gin’s name.

There will of course be some gin-tasting with our distiller as part of the event too, and delicious canapes from the Silk Road Cafe. Tickets are €35, and include two Chinnery Gin drinks and the gin-tasting.

An evening with George Chinnery; The Man & the Spirit (Chester Beatty)

We have one bottle of Chinnery Dublin Dry Gin to giveaway to a Broadsheet reader.

To enter, just complete this sentence:

‘”I deserve a bottle of Chinnery Gin especially at this time owing to__________________________________’

Lines MUST close at 4.15pm EXTENDED until 6.30pm MIDNIGHT.

Over 18s only.

Sip responsibly.

Chinnery Gin

Top pic: Met NYC