Ploughing ahead

The success of the National Ploughing Championships has a lot to do with a dynamic mother and daughter team, reports Helen O’Callaghan

THEY’RE arguably the most formidable mother-and-daughter duo in the country, a feisty can-do pair of women who, this week, will oversee the three-day National Ploughing Championships, the largest event of its kind in Ireland and Britain and one that will generate over €10 million for the local economy.

That Anna Marie McHugh, PRO and assistant managing director with the National Ploughing Association (NPA), would one day call her mum boss was always inevitable. NPA managing director Anna May McHugh had her office at the family home near Athy when her two children were babies.