Ireland's top two have won five world ploughing contests and been runner-up seven times

Ireland’s world-beating ploughmen Eamonn Tracey from Carlow and John Whelan from Wexford will between them bid for their 13th top-two-in-the-world performances, after winning their national test matches at Carlow last week.

Tracey has been the world champ in conventional ploughing three times and the runner-up four times.