Record crowds cut a dash to ploughing event

A RECORD 160,000 people attended the three-day National Ploughing Championships which concluded on a high note in Ballacolla, Co Laois, last evening.

National Ploughing Association managing director Anna May McHugh said the wonderful weather was a major factor in attracting such huge crowds to the event.

But another contributing factor was the fact that the championships were not held last year due to the foot-and-mouth scare and people were anxious to make up this year for what they had missed.