Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you
WITH OVER 200,000 people set to arrive in Stradbally over the next three days, the excitement in Laois is at fever pitch.
The National Ploughing Championships are expected to bring in €36 million and is billed as the largest show of its type in Europe.
Today, the President Michael D Higgins opened the festival and the real business, the ploughing, got underway.
Read: Going to the ploughing? Don’t bring a sat-nav say gardaí
Read: 10 signs you grew up near a farm
Your contributions will help us continue
to deliver the stories that are important to you
COMMENTS (10)