Elphin hosted another flyer on Saturday for the annual Christmas Cracker Charolais sale.

It was not by chance, I hear, with the Charolais society giving €8,000 back to keen buyers. In a year when not much has been happening, with shows and the Ploughing called off, the society wisely chose to invest in improving its premier bull sale. Each of the buyers of the first 20 bulls which surpassed the €4,500 mark were given €400 back. It certainly helped in getting the sale off to a great start and it was refreshing to see a society reinvesting some of its fortunes.