Over 100,000 attend opening day of National Ploughing Championships

The National Plough Association says one hundred and two thousand, five hundred people attended the Ploughing Championships in Carlow today.

That’s well ahead of last year, when 97 and a half thousand attended the opening day.

As todays action winds down, traffic is building on exit routes but is moving around Fenagh as tens of thousands of people make their journey home.