East Cork set to reap rewards of staging 2005 ploughing contest

EAST CORK will harvest at least €6 million next year when the National Ploughing Championships will be held near Castlemartyr.

The announcement is expected to be made tomorrow by Minister for Agriculture Joe Walsh at a function in Mogeely.

Managing director of the National Ploughing Association (NPA), Ms Anna Marie McHugh, declined to confirm that the showcase event will be in Cork next year, except to say it would be held “somewhere in Munster”.