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Irish Professional Dog Grooming Championships 2009

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Premier Groom 2009 sunday 2nd August more details

10th/11th October 2009 13th Irish Grooming Championship Weekend details pending

British Dog Grooming Championships sunday 18th October. Kennel Club Buildings at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire more details on www.petcare.org.uk near the time

Groomania Festival Belgium 24th/25th October more details to ensure events available in english link with IPDGA who is compiling a list for the organisers

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Many Congratulations to IPDGA Member Jeanette Vega who owns Ceasers Palace, Ballyfermot Dublin 10 who has won 1st place in Augusts' "before & after" contest on Colin Taylor/Heidi Anderton's website www.globalpetgrooming.com
Well done Jeanette you did a great job on the westie !!
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1st Premier Groom

Leeds,August 2008

By Leonie Fahey - Canine Country Club

...........Our trip began by meeting in Jenny’s salon in Celbridge on the Saturday evening. Jenny was frantic trying to get her dogs dried, as myself and Margaret were busy sorting out the van. We had 3 tables, grooming boxes, blankets for dogs, water for dogs, leads, cages and trust me PLENTY more!!!!Hope we haven’t forgotten anything?? Too late now as we were running late!! so on the way we were deciding which would be the quickest way to reach port as time we did not have to spare. So we decided on the Port Tunnel as none of us had being through it! So in through the tunnel we go!!It was a life saver no traffic jams! Best piece of road the government built!

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Seminar 6th July

IPDGA were pleased to host a 1 day seminar in Roadstone hosted by Colin Taylor recently....

all who attended seemed to feel it very worthwhile.

Member feedback ~ "just a quick mail to say how much I enjoyed last Sunday's seminar. Colin was great - very informative, easy to understand, down to earth and approchable. The screen was a great help too. As always, I came away feeling I had learned valuable tips, not only from Colin, but other members also. And renewed my enthusiasm for the job - always a good thing! Thanks for all the hard work you put into these events - much appreciated."

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Write up for our 2008 Champs in Show Dogs Ireland Click here

IrishGroomer of the Year 2008

October 11/12th 2008 saw us hosting our 12th Annual Weekend including the Irish Grooming Championships. Numbers of competitors were high again this year, which was wonderful to see. Each competitor was given a goodie bag & competitors rosette & certificate. Depending which class they were in this could have contained among other goodies a clippers {sponsored by Oster }or a lovely travel grooming bag {sponsored by IPDGA}.It was lovely so see new faces among the competitors, not to mention among the class placings. By the time the final awards where being announced no clear cut winner was streaking ahead so we all had our fingers crossed to see who would be crowned overall Irish Groomer of the Year 2008. Several groomers had achieved placings of 1st & 3rd in the weekends classes. Another groomer had been awarded 2nd & a merit.
In some grooming Championships an Individual dog is chosen as the winner but we aim to acknowledge an all round level of skill with differing techniques & coat types when awarding our Groomer of the year. We were very pleased to announce

Nicola Lacey

of Muttugly

Irish Groomer of the Year 2008

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Best Groomer in Show is then chosen between Best International & Irish Groomer of the Year Nicola won this award aswell . A wonderful weekend for this talented young groomer. Her Trophy collection for the weekend also included Best Scissor Technique & 1st Clipped Class with an Airedale & 3rd in Scissor class with a Bichon. Well done indeed.

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