Spirit of volunteering alive at Ploughing Championships

BESET by problems, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern had one consolation last week when he visited National and World Ploughing Championships.

There’s no better example of the active citizenship he has been encouraging lately.

A few hundred people, the majority of them farmers, give voluntarily of their time — up to three weeks each — to organise and run the Championships — which have been Ireland’s largest annual agricultural gathering for many years.