Directions, tickets and highlights of Ireland’s primary agricultural festival that sees up to 70,000 attendees in a day
Bus Éireann is running feeder services from Athy, Portlaoise and Portarlington train stations, while hundreds of coaches will ferry visitors from all corners of the island to Ratheniska, which is hosting for a second successive year.“It’s absolutely ploughing weather,” says Anna Marie McHugh, assistant managing director of the National Ploughing Association , who advised “wellies and raincoats” should not be forgotten.
What follows looks like more of a mixed bag, but the NPA says it has done much to prepare for as comfortable a festival as possible since last Friday’s on-site deluge. “We’ve had to do a lot of remedial works,” says McHugh. “We’ve had tankers in, we’ve had sweepers in, all of that. It’s not a venue for runners this year, it’s one of those years [for] wellies.”It’s not The Ploughing without the ploughing. This year around 350 people will participate in 24 national competitions.
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