Young bucks make a beeline for Calendar girls

NOTHING like it had been seen at The Ploughing since a pair of lively cattle, of the male and female species, exchanged knowing glances across a grassy knoll at Crecora, Co Limerick, back in 1991.

People didn’t know whether those looks were motivated by love or lust but there was no such doubt at yesterday’s championships in Annaharvey, Co Offaly. For the young blades of rural Ireland who made a beeline for the Macra na Feirme stand with tenners in their fists were just motivated by sheer curiosity.

All wanted to purchase the celebrated calendar produced by Limerick Macra featuring photographs of a dozen of its loveliest ladies having shed most of their threads.