Barking Mad Cobh

18/10/2026

Outtakes from Jasmine’s photoshoot 😂
Why don’t we have pictures of all the dogs? Sometimes it’s because we get them finished just as owners arrive, sometimes it’s because we forget, often it’s because not all dogs care about looking at a camera 😂🤣 I’ve been trying to get a nice photo of Jasmine for years at this stage but the girl just doesn’t know how to stand still 🤣 but that’s ok, we love Jasmine’s personality and wouldn’t change it for the world! 😍💕

18/10/2026

Lily the Schnauzer has had some tough times with illness and losing her sight lately! She was given the all clear for a groom and she was a star for her bath and clip!
We love minding the dogs that have been with us for many years! Sometimes we need to make things easier for them if they start to loose their hearing or sight or balance with age but we love seeing them skip out of the shop feeling great after a good pampering!

12/10/2026

Like, where do I start??

It was such a great year, and before awards last night I was already thinking this had been one of the most enjoyable years at I’ve ever put down! So much fun catching up with people that through the years of attendance at this event and others like it have become friends!

To the committee and helpers at I’d like to congratulate ye on such a great year, your hard work and dedication to this event is inspiring and not taken for granted! Ye are amazing!
Thanks so so much to my judges over the weekend, your kindness,feedback and support means the world, I’m so proud that ye all were happy to put my groom into consideration for BIS, such an honour! Georgia Ashton Fuller Karen Hogan Kim Chen Jo silk-smithk9transfurmations

There’s so many people to thank for everything big and small that helped me along the way to being able to pull this off at all, everyone that ever judged me, taught me, supported me or even just loaned a helping hand, family, friends and inspirations all helped me reach my goal.

Huge congratulations to Rosie that came and helped me and competed at her first ever competition in the Novice Handstrip with Skye and went and won her class! I’ll tell you I certainly didn’t do that at my first competition 🤣 so proud of you Rosie Kerrigan

Congratulations to all the winners over the weekend especially to Lyndsey Murphy for RBIS and Tanya Salas for Best Allrounder

Thanks as always to the owners of the dogs for entrusting me to take your precious family members, I definitely wouldn’t be here without yer help! Can’t wait to see all the official pictures of the dogs from Julie

So the class results
🥉 third place Champion Purebreed Scissor
🥇 1st Champion Handstrip Gundog
🥇 Best Champion Handstrip overall
🥇 Best Champion of the day
🥇 Handler Award 2026 (such a special honour)
🥇 Best In Show (for Handstrip, Cocker Spaniel)

I also was very happy with Lorcan’s Handstrip for the new special Jackpot class, we didn’t win but it was a fun class to compete in with many top class groomers over all disciplines!

11/10/2026

Thanks so much Irish Professional Dog Groomers Association and
I’ll do a full post tomorrow but need to get some sleep after reaching a dream of mine today!

It may sink in overnight! 🙏
what the heck?

10/10/2026

Day one of down. Thanks to the Irish Professional Dog Groomers Association for holding another amazing competition! Great seminars, great people and good weather for this event for the first time in years that I can recall made it a great day!

Me and Mylo placed third 🥉 in the Champion Purebreed Scissor class and got some great constructive feedback to improve the groom for next time! Thanks to judges Kim Chen and Georgia Ashton Fuller

Thanks too to Rosie Kerrigan and Chris for their help! And of course to Mylo’s family for letting me steal him away for the weekend!

Back at it tomorrow!

Congratulations to today’s winners! 🙌🏼

03/10/2026

We got one of the official pics back from Groomania this week, still waiting on the ones of the dogs, but it was such an amazing weekend in Belgium!
So grateful to my teammates and support from everyone, representing Ireland at the world’s largest international grooming competition is such a privilege that none of us took for granted!

Special thanks again to Beckett’s owners for allowing me to bring him, to Ilse and Monica for their tremendous support and help in organising and helping in so many ways!

I’m heading to the Irish grooming championships “Madra Mania” next weekend with three dogs and Belgium really relit the fire in me to do my best! Can’t wait!! Rosie will also be competing for the first time so it will be exciting to watch her step into the ring!

01/10/2026

22/09/2026

I’ll be getting back to everybody shortly! Apologies for the wait!

Just waking up after spending 22 hours on the road back from the International Grooming Championships at

A whirlwind of a weekend, Thursday to Monday of nonstop action, work, travel and grooming! Team Ireland didn’t place but we are super proud to represent our country! More to come on the trip soon!

25/08/2026

I’m heading away again as part of Groom Team Ireland thanks so much to all our sponsors!! IPDGA Irish Professional Dog Groomers Association Sswagd Education The Rebel Groom Off and all those individuals that have chosen to buy the webinars and send donations! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼☘️💕🙏

We are absolutely delighted to support Groom Team Ireland, who will be proudly representing Ireland at the World Grooming Championship 2026 at Groomania in Belgium this September!🏆🍀

Groom Team Ireland brings together some of Ireland’s leading competitive dog groomers, coming together as a national team to compete against talented teams from around the world.

A huge best of luck to all the team members:

⭐ Hailey Morre
⭐ Laura Harper
⭐ Lyndsey Murphy
⭐ Lauren Holton
⭐ Monika Petras
⭐ Ilse Sas

From all of us here at Mullinahone Co-op Pet Grooming Supplies, we wish you every success.

We’ll be cheering you on all the way!💚

21/08/2026

Groom Team Ireland’s €65 Grooming Webinar Bundle of 4 Grooming seminar videos are now available to purchase in support of our fundraising efforts for getting the team to Belgium!

All 4 members have done a webinar on the subject of their class, mine is “setter/spaniel” so I have done a seminar on grooming the Irish Setter/silky handstrip.

If you or anyone you know may be interested in supporting our team donations can be made using the info in this post. If you wish to join the private webinar page please request membership and pay €65 to the bank details and you will be added.

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