Ploughing Championships: Europe's largest pop-up town

Europe’s largest pop-up town was a blaze of bright lights last night as the tillage fields of Offaly awaited today’s start of the 86th National Ploughing Championships.

More than 280,000 people are expected to visit the 700-acre site at Screggan, less than 5km from Tullamore, in the next three days.

Ploughtown was developed over the past seven weeks in accordance with a site plan prepared by architect John Burgess.