O’Dwyers and Kehoes to host ploughing championship

The O’Dwyer and Kehoe family farms at Heathpark, New Ross, Co Wexford, will stage the 2012 National Ploughing Championships, with other local landowners providing hundreds of acres for parking.

The location between two major routes, the New Ross-Enniscorthy N30 road and the New Ross-Wexford N25 road, is expected to ease traffic problems.

The ploughing attracts an average attendance of 180,000, and more than 1,000 exhibitors. It is likely to bring upwards of €15m into the local economy, much of it for accommodation providers within a 30-mile radius.

Co Wexford last staged the event in 1998 at Ballycarney, Ferns.