All eyes on Ploughing event

NEXT month’s National Ploughing Championships will stage Ireland’s only full livestock exhibition in 2007, after Sunday’s Tullamore Show and AIB National Livestock Show was cancelled due to floods.

Pedigree cattle and sheep associations use the Ploughing to promote their finest animals. Some use the event for competitive shows, while others use it more for meeting clients.

The loss of the Tullamore Show leaves events such as the Ploughing on September 25 to 27 in Annaharvey, Tullamore, Co Offaly, and the National Dairy Show in Millstreet, Co Cork, on Saturday, October 20 dominating the 2007 livestock show schedule.