Ireland wins top places in challenge

COMPETITORS from the island of Ireland dominated the results from the festival of ploughing in Lindholme, near Doncaster, in England.

Sean Keating, from Creacon, New Ross, Co Wexford, won the five nations conventional ploughing challenge for the Republic with David Gill, from the North, in second place.

David Wright, also from the North, won the reversible challenge at the event, now in its fourth year.