Dowth Point-to-Point and Country Fair cancelled

Organisers of the Point-to-Point and Country Fair at Dowth, County Meath have announced that the event will not take place this year.

With restrictions on spectators at racing events still in place, the organising committee has taken the decision to postpone the event until 2021.

Owen Brennan, Executive Chairman of Devenish said: “The Point-to-Point and County Fair at Dowth is a community event and the current requirement to running behind closed doors would have curtailed it to a racing only affair.

“We commend the racing authorities for their efforts in ensuring racing can return in the safest possible way, in line with Government guidance, and we fully support the ‘behind closed doors’ requirement at this time.

“However, we do not know definitively whether these restrictions on spectators will remain in place by the autumn. Accordingly, we have taken the decision not to proceed with the Point-To-Point and Country Fair at Dowth this year. This was a difficult decision for us to make, but an event of this scale takes months of preparation and planning for our organising committee, sponsors, and vendors.

“The Dowth Point-To-Point and Country Fair has been going from strength to strength since the inaugural event five years ago and whilst it is unfortunate that we have had to take this decision, racegoers can rest assured we plan to be back in 2021, bigger and better than ever.”

Hosted by Devenish and organised in conjunction with the Meath Hunt and Tara Harriers, the event is has grown to become Ireland’s largest Autumn Point-to-Point and country fair.

The Laytown Races event due to take place in September was shelved last week.