The rain poured, paths became surging rivers, and words cascaded from Michael D at the first day of The Ploughing
By late afternoon the car-parking fields were transformed into tar pits. And it was strange, in a venue with enough horsepower at its disposal to drag a small country from its earthly moorings, that it mostly fell to obliging members of the public to push sunken vehicles to firmer ground.
For they were PTSB ponchos. Either that or they were sponsored by Permanent TSB, which sponsors The Ploughing as well as The Late Late Show. The politicians love The Ploughing but the leaders of the three Coalition parties were conspicuous by their absence, otherwise engaged at a UN sustainable development conference in New York. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Eamon Ryan of the Greens were photographed sitting together at Ireland’s table, looking very warm and dry and very pleased with themselves. For some inexplicable reason they took the Minister for Health along for the trip too.
The Irish Times, resplendent in her Post Tubridy Stress Buster poncho, was specifically instructed not to frighten the horses because they don’t like “the big orange bibs”. Sinn Féin won the battle of the free merchandise with it’s very cheeky green cowboy hat. It was walking out of their tent with it’s “No More Cowboys! It’s time for Sinn Féin.”
Minister Heather Humphreys was serving teas and coffees behind the counter on Fine Gael’s stand. Charlie Flanagan was running a competition and offering a prize of dinner for two in Leinster House.The quiz question was to complete the name … something Flanagan.We got an “I visited the Fianna Fáil stand at the Ploughing!” sticker to bring home and surreptitiously stuck it on the back of somebody’s coat.
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