Ploughman remembered with a minute of silence

A single candle flickered on a counter in the headquarters of the National Ploughing Championships at Screggan in Tullamore yesterday.

It was a moving reminder of all those who have died or suffered injury in farm accidents countrywide.

But it took on a more poignant significance after Martin Kehoe Jr, the champion ploughman, lost his life in a farm accident in Co Wexford, the previous day.