Tánaiste ploughs on despite Enda’s furrowed brow

It was Year Zero at the Ploughing Championships for Joan Burton. With an Irish Examiner opinion poll unable to find a single farmer who said they would vote Labour, the Tánaiste faced reaping a bleak harvest at the annual agri-fest.

The omens were not looking good when Ms Burton posed for a nice little photo with a beaming child at the beginning of the walkabout.

Unfortunately, she had chosen the farm safety display as a backdrop and just as the cameras clicked a giant bail of hay fell directly behind her and crushed a fake body. That’s the sort of thing that happens at the ploughing.