Ploughing event has 1,200 trade stands

It’s the event for everyone and anyone with an interest in rural Ireland — which explains why you need 20 hours just to visit the 1,200 trade stands.

And that allows you just one minute at each stand, before you think about seeing the 340 Ploughing competitors, the 28 food and drink caterers, or attractions such as the pole climbing competitions, lamb shearing, craft demonstrations, junior and senior hunt chase, vintage machinery exhibition and threshing demonstrations, fashion shows, sheep dog trials, loy digging, meggers, celebrity cookery demonstrations, outdoor radio broadcasts and much, much more.

Yes, it’s next week’s National Ploughing Championships of 2012 at Heathpark, New Ross, Co Wexford.