durrow classic car show 2019 - irish help needed

[hairnet]

went to this in 2015 or 16

 

wasnt on this year

 

if you search for it irish vintage scene comes up with the poster from 2013 (!)

 

their website seems to be from then also

 

haylp

[junkyarddog]

It hasn't been on for the last few years.

 

Something to do with not being able to get insurance for it,afaik.

 

Was a good show with a decent autojumble.

[artdjones]

That's the Irish problem,soon insurance will be so difficult to get that all we will be able to do is sit indoors and look at the walls.Unfortunately,many people in Ireland are extremely litigious.I heard from a hotel owner I know that a hotel in Ireland is being sued because a bride at a wedding there threw her bouquet in the traditional manner,and then someone fell over it and injured themselves.

[dieselassist]

...I went to the Durrow show last time it was on; 2016 - the year that the blue chevy chevelle with the big blower through the hood was doing laps of the field/show area...

...anyways I was told it was cancelled due to a combinationof dispute with the landowner, and the 'taxman's' footsoldiers getting busy afterwards chasing up the autojumble traders...but you hear 'a lot of different things' n the salt sellar has to be in reach...

 

The Laois Classic and Vintage car Club are fairly well organised n generally a 'good group of enthusiasts' - I know one or two of them n can ask what the possibilities are of it happening again either at durrow or another venue...

[dieselassist]

@artjones; as regards irish folk being 'extremely litigious'; this is a myth constantly perpetrated by the media; irish folk are no more, or less, " extremely litigious "  than any other country; its the cost of defending the case; ie the high costs of employing the legal profession here (who the EU/troika attempted to curtail /reign in their high representative rates during the troika period, but  their pressure were'robustly' resisted, n the high rates p/h remained/increased) to defend the case, and so a  settlement to write a cheque on the steps of the court house, is often the 'comprimise, however flimsy the case', to minimise court/'in chamber' costs.... hence why insurance companies settle so many cases without fighting them; those that they do incur costs n so the insurance costs in terms of premiums go up due to both factors....

[artdjones]

That's why I would say the Irish are extremely litigious.People know that they will get money for nothing,so it's worth starting a case.And then they salve their conscience by saying that they are only taking down the big guys(the insurance companies) ,who deserve it because their premiums are so high.I'm a born Irish citizen myself,by the way.