The overall champion sold for £12,600 at the Hilltown Christmas Show and Sale on Wednesday 19 November.

The top place went to Keith and Jade Tumilty with their homebred Limousin heifer, which sold to Martin McConville.

Closely following was the second-place breeding heifer from Niall Doyle, which sold for £8,000.

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The reserve overall champion on the night and first place in the beef heifer class went to Christopher Brown and sold for £4,700 to James Alexander.

The Housewives’ Choice went to Daniel Lavery and sold for £3,420 to Hewitt Meats.

Also on the night, a charity auction raised £10,000 to be split between The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust and the Cancer Fund for Children.