National Ploughing Championships declared a success by organisers and many from Carlow and Kilkenny who attended

The sun has set on the National Ploughing Championships and it’s been declared a success.

244,000 people turned out at Ratheniska in Co Laois, an increase of a fifth on last year’s attendance.

In the fields for Day Three, Aoife Hennessy from Kilkenny was second in the Macra 2 Furrow Conventional Plough Class.

While Carlow’s father and son Eamonn and Sean Tracey came fifth and fourth respectively in the Senior Conventional Test Match – it means the World Champ Eamonn will not be defending his title next year, Ireland will be represented instead by Martin Keogh of Wexford and Jer Coakely of Cork.

The NPA’s Ann Marie McHugh told our Matt O’Keeffe her team’s delighted it went so well (listen at the 15’40” mark here):