The attendance of 92,000 on the third and last day of the National Ploughing Championships brought the tally for the three days to 291,500, a new record for the event, writes John Sexton.

The overwhelming delight of the Frawley family upon winning their Irish Examiner National Dairy Show 2013 Supreme Champion two-in-a-row with Ridgefield Dundee Portea last weekend signified the high standing of the Millstreet competition.

Irish dairy cattle are “second to none” in the world, said Canadian expert Carl Phoenix, who judged 230 of Ireland’s best last Saturday, and made Ridgefield Dundee Portea the Irish Examiner supreme champion of the 30th National Dairy Show, to the delight of owners Pat and Derek Frawley of Croagh, Rathkeale, Co Limerick.