Tullamore tunes into Taoiseach and McCarthy Cup

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern found himself in the middle of a plot when visited the National Ploughing Championships at Annaharvey yesterday — but it had nothing to do with politics.

After flying to the site in a helicopter, he was whisked to the headlands where the horse and vintage tractor competitors were following the furrows.

One of his first calls was to Plot 257, where he chatted with ploughmen, posed for photographs and patted a pair of six-year-old American Belgian mares, Lu and Kay, belonging to Gerry King from Dunleer, Co Louth.