Plough and its stars

Anna May McHugh, the organiser of the National Ploughing Championships, has helped to steer the event through tough economic times and, with the help of her daughter, establish it as a hardy annual, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

EVERY two years the leading French champagne company Veuve Clicquot hands a gong to a businesswoman considered to have achieved excellence in her field.

This year’s winner, Anna May McHugh has literally devoted her life to excellence in the field in her capacity as the long serving MD of the National Ploughing Association.