Having held the event in Aberdeen for 5 years 2008 was the first of what is expected to be a 5 year stretch in Northern Ireland. Hosted by the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra it raised in the region of £120,000 for the charity.

Part of the sponsorship package was a fourball in the Emmerdale Golf Classic which Bloomfield gave away as a prize in an easy to enter competition. A chance to meet Paddy the Vet was the prize in a competition run around the time of the Centre’s Wet Nose Day.

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