Ploughing Championships 2013

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Just wondering has the venue been announced for 2013's ploughing? Thanks.

Tipp Man

mfitzy wrote: »

Just wondering has the venue been announced for 2013's ploughing? Thanks.

Isn't it usually announced at or just before the current years ploughing?

simx

mfitzy wrote: »

Just wondering has the venue been announced for 2013's ploughing? Thanks.

dundalk i heard

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Tipp Man wrote: »

Isn't it usually announced at or just before the current years ploughing?

That's what I was thinking too. This seems to say Kilkenny but first I heard of it;
http://www.thegatheringireland.com/What-s-on/Events-List/National-Ploughing-Championships/Tuesday-24-September-2013/34

td5man

mfitzy wrote: »

Tipp Man wrote: »

Isn't it usually announced at or just before the current years ploughing?

That's what I was thinking too. This seems to say Kilkenny but first I heard of it;
http://www.thegatheringireland.com/What-s-on/Events-List/National-Ploughing-Championships/Tuesday-24-September-2013/34

Thought it was ardee

whelan1

td5man wrote: »

Thought it was ardee

so did i

td5man

whelan1 wrote: »

td5man wrote: »

Thought it was ardee

so did i

Hope it is i'd be there in 20minutes.

i_steal_sheep

td5man wrote: »

Hope it is i'd be there in 20minutes.

It is in Louth alright. My old man is part of the NPA

Mongarra

When I heard about it earlier in the year it mentioned Louth and that it would be handy to get there because of the proximity to the M1 motorway. I don't recall the specific location.

Roll on Old Ross in a few weeks.

whelan1

td5man wrote: »

Hope it is i'd be there in 20minutes.

less than 10 minutes for me:D

leg wax

Mongarra wrote: »

When I heard about it earlier in the year it mentioned Louth and that it would be handy to get there because of the proximity to the M1 motorway. I don't recall the specific location.

Roll on Old Ross in a few weeks.

are you mad ross will be a disaster,no way to get in or out.

snowman707

whelan1 wrote: »

less than 10 minutes for me:D

first in before the rush


any chance of an old cheap b&b

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leg wax wrote: »

are you mad ross will be a disaster,no way to get in or out.

I know Wexford is a very important farming county and it's important to hold it there now and then, I really think it is poor in terms of access as it's the wrong side of the M9 motorway and New Ross and Enniscorthy are still major bottleknecks.
I thought Athy was a great site, for me personally it was only 30 mins away and it was close to the M9 and M7 and not far from Dublin. Would have made a good perm site. Ah well.

JohnBoy

mfitzy wrote: »

I know Wexford is a very important farming county and it's important to hold it there now and then, I really think it is poor in terms of access as it's the wrong side of the M9 motorway and New Ross and Enniscorthy are still major bottleknecks.

Agree,

it'd only be about an hour for me on a normal day, but I dont think I'll go this year, I've visions of spending hours in new ross trying to cross the bridge.

nashmach

It is never announced until the last day of the current championship so everything on here is only speculation.

Although, I'm not far from the site, I'm enthralled to see what the Gardai have planned as like many of the posters above Ross is going to be a bottleneck and if harvest is still ongoing :eek:

leg wax

nashmach wrote: »

It is never announced until the last day of the current championship so everything on here is only speculation.

Although, I'm not far from the site, I'm enthralled to see what the Gardai have planned as like many of the posters above Ross is going to be a bottleneck and if harvest is still ongoing :eek:

if the ploughing want guards they are going to have to pay for them.

nashmach

leg wax wrote: »

if the ploughing want guards they are going to have to pay for them.

I know that leg wax but they will still be doing the traffic plan - that will not be the remit of Joe Public.

Arrow in the Knee

Won't be going to New Ross this year as too long a journey.

I'd end up with a pain in me arse sitting in the car that long!

whelan1

Arrow in the Knee wrote: »

Won't be going to New Ross this year as too long a journey.

I'd end up with a pain in me arse sitting in the car that long!

similar, why travel over 2 hours to wade through muck when ya can do it at home

td5man

snowman707 wrote: »

whelan1 wrote: »

less than 10 minutes for me:D

first in before the rush


any chance of an old cheap b&b

Now thats an idea.

whelan1

apparently its under question in ardee for 2013 due to the fact that the nra are not allowing the closure of the link rd from ardee to the motorway

Manoffeeling

Will there be a train service implemented for the ploughing considering the location?

reilig

Fed up with this weather, my parents got on a plane to Croatia this morning for the world ploughing championships there this week. Their trip also includes an agricultural tour of croatia!

lulufinn90

mfitzy wrote: »

Just wondering has the venue been announced for 2013's ploughing? Thanks.

Heard its in ardee co louth been in the pipeline for last few years home county whoo

pathway33

Usually announced on last day of ploughing. Any news?

Manoffeeling

http://www.thegatheringireland.com/Attend-A-Gathering/Individual-Gathering.aspx?eid=213

Location?

nashmach

pathway33 wrote: »

Usually announced on last day of ploughing. Any news?

As per the 9 news - none announced.

Treble20

The hot rumour is Killarney but according to a man in the Scotts For Tools stand who was talking to 1 of the men behind the counter today LISMORE CO WATERFORD is suppose to be next year's venue? I doubt very much Lismore would be capable of holding such a big event but if it is held there It'll be fine and close to me.

Arrow in the Knee

Someone said to me that it could be New Ross again next year, but I doubt that since there was alot of whinging about it this year!!!

marob1969

The traffice management was brutal. I live 15min drive from site and it took 3 hrs to get home Wednesday evening!.

Stinicker

marob1969 wrote: »

The traffice management was brutal. I live 15min drive from site and it took 3 hrs to get home Wednesday evening!.

Brutal it took me three hours to get out of the blue carpark Wednesday evening and another three hours to get down to Kerry. They really made a shambles of it and considering the massive amount of money they take in you'd think they'd find a permanent home somewhere like Athy or Athlone with proper access and put some actual infrastructure in place, parking in fields is a joke. Ireland's biggest out door event and it was run like a disaster. I've been to the CeBIT and Hannover Messe in Germany which hosts 400,000 people over three days and they were proper run gatherings.

bob charles

Stinicker wrote: »

and Hannover Messe in Germany which hosts 400,000 people over three days and they were proper run gatherings.

Someone mentioned that they had to brake hard from 120kms to get into the car park in Hannover:D, Think I will head to Agromek in Denmark for a gander this year

allthedoyles

marob1969 wrote: »

The traffice management was brutal. I live 15min drive from site and it took 3 hrs to get home Wednesday evening!.

Traffic delays happen every year :

The sunny weather brought out record crowds as the National Ploughing Championships got underway in Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny.2008
Some 70,000 people were estimated to have attended the event this afternoon.
However severe traffic disruption was experienced by people attending Championships, which got under way at midday.
Long tailbacks were reported and motorists travelling from distances as short as 20km away say it took them more than three hours to arrive at the venue.

source :
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0923/plough.html

Fermec

I Left my House @ 5am Thursday Moring , Arrieved in the Field in New Ross @ 7-30am, Left the Field @ 4pm , Got Home For 7pm. A Small Bit of Traffic Leaving The Field, Thats All. Im exactly 112miles from Newross, Its The only Way, Go Early & Leave Early. When Will People Realise This!.:rolleyes:

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allthedoyles wrote: »

Traffic delays happen every year :



source :
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0923/plough.html

This was before the M9 opened. Would be vastly more accessible now. New Ross is a bottlekneck at best of times.

johnnyb6

HI i just wondering can anyone please tell me where the ploughing is on next year. I have heard a few places mentioned but does anyone know for definate

Thanks alot

Rovi

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Sam Kade

Fermec wrote: »

I Left my House @ 5am Thursday Moring , Arrieved in the Field in New Ross @ 7-30am, Left the Field @ 4pm , Got Home For 7pm. A Small Bit of Traffic Leaving The Field, Thats All. Im exactly 112miles from Newross, Its The only Way, Go Early & Leave Early. When Will People Realise This!.:rolleyes:

The only man in Ireland that leaves early going to and from the ploughing wants others to do likewise. Do you realisethat
if that happens you will have to rethink your plan?

allthedoyles

johnnyb6 wrote: »

HI i just wondering can anyone please tell me where the ploughing is on next year. I have heard a few places mentioned but does anyone know for definate

Thanks alot

As far as I know its a 4-way choice between :

1. Kerry
2. Wexford
3. Louth
4. Mayo

Could someone start a poll to see which is most popular

As the event came to a close this evening and the site dismantling began, plans were already afoot for the staging of next year’s event. The 2013 championships will place from the 24th to 26th of September.
However, the location of the 2013 National Ploughing Championships has yet to be finalised but an announcement is expected within the coming weeks

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They're all pretty peripheral locations. Louth and Wexford would be best but still wouldn't be great locations.

reilig

allthedoyles wrote: »

As far as I know its a 4-way choice between :

1. Kerry
2. Wexford
3. Louth
4. Mayo

Could someone start a poll to see which is most popular

Is this your own 4 way choice??

How would you get traffic into and out of kerry ?

Where would you get a site in Mayo big enough or with the quality of land to hold it ?? Achill??

If you're going to post something, make sure its accurate!!

Manoffeeling

Mayo? How could enda justify that after the bottler fiasco last week?

fastrac

I reckon it was a done deal to return to Wexford but after all the chaos they had to back off and reconsider.

Or wait til the dust settled and quietly announce Wexford 2013.

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Mayo would be ludicrous. I know it would be "nice" to hold it up the West but from a business point of view I'd imagine it would be suicide!!

whelan1

fastrac wrote: »

I reckon it was a done deal to return to Wexford but after all the chaos they had to back off and reconsider.

Or wait til the dust settled and quietly announce Wexford 2013.

think alot of the stand holder wouldnt go back there

bbam

fastrac wrote: »

I reckon it was a done deal to return to Wexford but after all the chaos they had to back off and reconsider.

Or wait til the dust settled and quietly announce Wexford 2013.

I'd say your bang on there...

In my mind then next location will make or break the whole thing.. Another bad choice would set the event back 20 years in terms of business and attendance..
A good site like Athy would start to build confidence again...

I could see the Louth-Ardee site working as the motorway and N2 are close bye. Kerry would be a no go for most day trippers and surely the traffic wold be even worse.. Wexford would be similar..
Mayo? I thought the land was so bad they needed ALL the DA payment for the whole country...now its good enough for the ploughing!!

Manoffeeling

Ballacolla is just off the motorway also. The only fault there was that it was TOO DRY one year. They had to water the plots before ploughing. Tis hard to get it right the whole time I suppose!!!

5live

reilig wrote: »

Is this your own 4 way choice??

How would you get traffic into and out of kerry ?

Where would you get a site in Mayo big enough or with the quality of land to hold it ?? Achill??

If you're going to post something, make sure its accurate!!

By road i imagine, even though the airport has good access too:pac:

Killarney has probably the best range and choice of accomadation in the country and Tralee only 20 miles away too. An excellent site right in killarney town is also available. Access would be hugely improved on this years site with good roads to the south to cork and SE, to the east through castleisland for the traffic from the east and from the north for the N and W traffic through limerick and also clare(tarbert/killimor ferry).

Jesus reilig, its not like we are on another planet

Black Smoke

5live wrote: »

By road i imagine, even though the airport has good access too:pac:

Killarney has probably the best range and choice of accomadation in the country and Tralee only 20 miles away too. An excellent site right in killarney town is also available. Access would be hugely improved on this years site with good roads to the south to cork and SE, to the east through castleisland for the traffic from the east and from the north for the N and W traffic through limerick and also clare(tarbert/killimor ferry).

Jesus reilig, its not like we are on another planet

Just because ye didn't win Sam, this year, ye now want to take the ploughing:D
Hard to keep, the auld Kerry crowd down for long;)

reilig

5live wrote: »

By road i imagine, even though the airport has good access too:pac:

Killarney has probably the best range and choice of accomadation in the country and Tralee only 20 miles away too. An excellent site right in killarney town is also available. Access would be hugely improved on this years site with good roads to the south to cork and SE, to the east through castleisland for the traffic from the east and from the north for the N and W traffic through limerick and also clare(tarbert/killimor ferry).

Jesus reilig, its not like we are on another planet

The main reason that wexford got the ploughing was because of the motorways - the M11 and M9.

There are no mororways in kerry. Can you imagine the traffic backup that would exist between Killarney and castleisland if 50,000 people were leaving the ploughing site? The traffic is bad enough on that road after a long weekend.

I think that traffic would be much worse than the wexford site with no motorways until you get back to Cork or Limerick.

I can see plane loads of farmers flying into kerry for a day out at the ploughing

Mass availability of accommodation wouldn't really be a factor either. It has never been a deciding factor in the past anyway.

I don't think it would be a good choice of location.

Black Smoke

reilig wrote: »

I can see plane loads of farmers flying into kerry for a day out at the ploughing .

You hit the nail on the head right there. Faranfore Airport is a stones throw away. Get the likes of Aer Aran, to set up shuttle flights from Dublin, Knock, Donegal / Derry. Further shuttle bus from Faranfore to the ploughing. Lads from Munster, can take the car! Sorted. I reckon it could be a real winner.