Women aren’t sheepish about learning to shear

A GROUP of local women gathered on a Bennettsbridge farm last week in preparation for the Sheep and Wool Festival in Cillín Hill over the June bank holiday weekend. But unlike those who will be competing in the All-Ireland and International Sheep Shearing and Wool Handling Championships 2011 that weekend, for some it was their first time to shear a sheep.

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