Will you go to the ploughing 2018

Joe Daly

You couldn't mistake Marty Morrissey even when they try disguise him, he should keep the day job.

Iodine1

Dakota Dan wrote: »

You hardly though I meant a four course meal, a plate of sasuages with everyone dipping their fingers in it should have made it clear. You weren’t the poster I asked BTW.

Grand, No problem or issue anyway. People may have different views here and that's what keeps it interesting.

tractorporn

_Brian wrote:

Surely at this stage they have bankroll enough to purchase a permanent site and put down some roots, get proper event centre up and running that I’m sure would get plenty of other use throughout the year.

_Brian wrote:

Flaffing about with flimsy tents is for parochial events, not the largest agri show in Europe.

Have to say I agree with the idea of a permanent site. It would give exhibitors indoor stalls with all the associated services ie WiFi, electricity and water and coming from the exhibitor point of view a sit down food court/canteen would be a godsend. Having to eat your crap lunch stood up while having to spend 3 days on your feet is not all that appealing.

fergus1001

got a beef dinner a drink and a desert today €22 ........... sick

Box09

Dickie10 wrote:

would anna may mchugh and the ploughing gang not think of donating 10-15% of the gate takings to charity, maybe a different charity each day, irish cancer society, pieta house etc. im sure they could afford this they seem very money hungry gang

Brilliant idea. The McHughs have come out of this looking like sore losers. I used to love going , but not in recent years, it is gone too big and commercial.

_Brian

tractorporn wrote: »

Have to say I agree with the idea of a permanent site. It would give exhibitors indoor stalls with all the associated services ie WiFi, electricity and water and coming from the exhibitor point of view a sit down food court/canteen would be a godsend. Having to eat your crap lunch stood up while having to spend 3 days on your feet is not all that appealing.

Yep, they’re collecting plenty of money and banks would surely see the repayment potential.

Sadly I feel there are too many breastfeeding of the income to be bothered.

It’s tome to step things up a notch and provide the facilities punters deserve. They could have permanent toilets. I think they need fresh blood with a bigger drive than a woman with all her best years behind her.

newholland mad

fergus1001 wrote: »

got a beef dinner a drink and a desert today €22 ........... sick

What was it like?. if it was anyway half decent it wasnt a ripoff. A carvery beef is around 12 desert 4 and a mineral 3 total 19 .

Purple Mountain

fergus1001 wrote: »

got a beef dinner a drink and a desert today €22 ........... sick

I got a burger and a cheap looking bottle of some unknown brand of water for 9e.

SuperTortoise

Went last year for the first time in 6 or 7 years and just found it very commercialised, much more so than years previous, plenty of stalls selling pure ****e, sorta had to hunt down the stands i wanted to take a look at. It would'nt put me off altogether but 3-4 hours was plenty for me.

Mf310

Going tomro havent been all week ..... looking for some deals or just best places to buy ... The best waterproofs,
A good pair of work boots (redbacks or the like),
Liners and maybe light claw pieces for clusters (Milkrite is a good brand i heard of?)
LED floodlights for the yard
Lastly a good Headtorch

If any1 has bought please let me know stand name thanksðŸ‘

paddysdream

Joe Daly wrote: »

tanko wrote: »

Fine Gael have announced that the ploughing is on in Carlow next year.

Poor aul Anna Marie McHugh isnt happy that she didnt get to announce this.[/QUOTE



Pat Deering stole the show, where in Carlow oak park no.

No not in Oak park but about 10 miles east on the Wexford road.Word is that the deal is done about a month ago or more .Common knowledge around there as to the exact farmers in or out.Think a few were rather underwhelmed as to the money available.

Pat Deering would have a very very close connection to the actual area by the way although he is from north Carlow

alps

Mf310 wrote: »

Going tomro havent been all week ..... looking for some deals or just best places to buy ... The best waterproofs,
A good pair of work boots (redbacks or the like),
Liners and maybe light claw pieces for clusters (Milkrite is a good brand i heard of?)
LED floodlights for the yard
Lastly a good Headtorch

If any1 has bought please let me know stand name thanksðŸ‘

Kaiwaka raingear from Gregcare stand...best in class

Milkrite vented triangular liners are a marvellous product. The shells should come free with your first purchase. You'll get them at the baumaticgasgoine stand.

paddysdream

L1985 wrote: »

Was there today just home now. We thought it was v quiet TBH guys at the stands weren't too happy and then it just started lashing so all were closing up. Most of the guys I seemed to talk to aren't going to be there tomorrow so it will be interesting to see turn outs! There was a lot of negativity over the fact the stakeholders were told after the public.
One thing thou I find the event v well organised in terms of traffic we had no problems and it all seems to run seamlessly so we were happy with it. And there were plenty of portaloos which was a welcome surprise!!!

There myself as well.Thought the crowd rather small and nowhere near what they announced but perhaps some big exhibitors need a guaranteed footfall.Most tents were empty by 4/4;30 and lots were closing up after 5.Seen a lot of them looking like they were moving out tonight.
Wet miserable evening and doubtful if many likely to travel tomorrow but who knows?

road_high

_Brian wrote: »

Don’t remember it being in Cavan or Leitrim recently.

Because it would be suicide to hold it in those places- you’d never get a dry enough large site suitable. Not in a million years. I’ve experienced land in Leitrim and with any rainfall it’s like walking on wet sponges.

Joe Daly

paddysdream wrote: »

Joe Daly wrote: »

No not in Oak park but about 10 miles east on the Wexford road.Word is that the deal is done about a month ago or more .Common knowledge around there as to the exact farmers in or out.Think a few were rather underwhelmed as to the money available.

Pat Deering would have a very very close connection to the actual area by the way although he is from north Carlow

They were enquiring about getting a big tillage farm north kilkenny cemented road through they were quiet taking a back when they were told no because they would be interrupting the farm programe .

road_high

alps wrote: »

The ploughing will never again move away within a stones throw from Portlaoise...

The scale and logistics of the event now dictates this, and to be honest, for most of the patrons it doesn't matter one iota if it's 3 hours up the M7, the M8 or the M9...It may as well be in the same place every year...

Both Athy and stradbally were my favorites. You could tip over in 40mins from Kilkenny with virtually no stresss or bother. The sites and car parks were massive, level and dry. And the walk very near the sites.
Also was very central for Dublin as it’s become a huge media/political event now

road_high

paddysdream wrote: »

Joe Daly wrote: »

No not in Oak park but about 10 miles east on the Wexford road.Word is that the deal is done about a month ago or more .Common knowledge around there as to the exact farmers in or out.Think a few were rather underwhelmed as to the money available.

Pat Deering would have a very very close connection to the actual area by the way although he is from north Carlow

Heard it a month ago alright. Sounded like a done deal but doesn’t sound like it is just yet...

road_high

White Clover wrote: »

I completely agree. I have attended every year since I was a nipper, the last year being '16 in Tullamore. The site was a big step back in quality compared to Athy over the previous 3 years. The car park across the road in tullamore turned into a mess, pure messing trying to get out. Last year the place flooded. Good and all as the land is there, it's not a patch on Athy or wexford. The only problem with wexford is access. After '16 in Tullamore, I wasn't going to be there last year or this year.

Spot on. Athy and stradbally there is no comparisons- massive, level dry fields all in square blocks. Screggan site is humpy and hollow by comparison and just doesn’t fit as well.

Burning Tires

paddysdream wrote: »

There myself as well.Thought the crowd rather small and nowhere near what they announced but perhaps some big exhibitors need a guaranteed footfall.Most tents were empty by 4/4;30 and lots were closing up after 5.Seen a lot of them looking like they were moving out tonight.
Wet miserable evening and doubtful if many likely to travel tomorrow but who knows?

The 2 guys i know on stands there started packing up around 4:30 as they (their bosses) were disappointed with the footfall. Everything that would fit in the vans was taken. And out the gap around 5:30.
They reckon that 50,000 was the absolute max amount there, but hard to tell.

road_high

Loves_lorries wrote: »

Always find both mother and daughter annoying to listen to on radio and tv, that level of cuteness I find irritating, I know the elder Anna is a national treasure but I watched her on gay byrnes programme about god and spirituality etc a few years ago and you knew no more about her after thirty minutes than thirty seconds, all oul meaningless guff, put a healy rae to shame.

Yea she does have plenty of opinions on everyone and everything else. But I know virtually nothing about the woman despite her high profile

road_high

alps wrote: »

The ploughing will never again move away within a stones throw from Portlaoise...

The scale and logistics of the event now dictates this, and to be honest, for most of the patrons it doesn't matter one iota if it's 3 hours up the M7, the M8 or the M9...It may as well be in the same place every year...

I think it’ll have to stay in the Athy- Stradbally-Carlow triangle. Best land, best sites, closer to Dublin, and in the middle of the M7,8,9 and 11. Plus railway lines

road_high

Dickie10 wrote: »

could there actually be anywhere in cavan or lietrim capable of holding it? ballinabrackey is the most southerly point in meath as well right on the offaly border. it is vary strange it hasnt been in meath ,louth or north dublin more often huge tillage areas

The land quality wouldn’t be in Cavan or Leitrim. The car parks just wouldn’t work in weather like today. It’s realistically ever going to be in a handful of counties now namely Kildare, Laois, Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford going forward. There’s a lot of variable to consider as well as hotel facilities and rosd access

patsy_mccabe

They should hold it on the burren, in north Clare. Plenty of dry ground.
Damn the ecology.

road_high

Anna Marie McHugh is in a woeful huff over Pat Deering TD Carlow/Kilkenny announcing next years venue before the NPA. Wouldn't be surprised if they pulled it out of spite!

Buford T. Justice XIX

_Brian wrote: »

Yep, they’re collecting plenty of money and banks would surely see the repayment potential.

Sadly I feel there are too many breastfeeding of the income to be bothered.

It’s tome to step things up a notch and provide the facilities punters deserve. They could have permanent toilets. I think they need fresh blood with a bigger drive than a woman with all her best years behind her.

Anna Marie won't like that!

Stationmaster

Anyone there yet this morning? Is there many tents around open?!

alps

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Anna Marie won't like that!

It'll happen to all of us..maybe has...

I was really enthralled with the level of effort imagination and money that was put into stands this year. The level of professionalism by exhibitors was astounding.

I expect that exhibitors and visitors alike will begin to look for something more comfortable, more consistent, more trustworthy, for what is now a world class exhibit.

That'll be Anna Marie's next challenge, if she's up for it..

farmersfriend

Stationmaster wrote: »

Anyone there yet this morning? Is there many tents around open?!

on the way

wrangler

alps wrote: »

It'll happen to all of us..maybe has...

I was really enthralled with the level of effort imagination and money that was put into stands this year. The level of professionalism by exhibitors was astounding.

I expect that exhibitors and visitors alike will begin to look for something more comfortable, more consistent, more trustworthy, for what is now a world class exhibit.

That'll be Anna Marie's next challenge, if she's up for it..

The management has proved itself over the years, hopefully this year is a freak but exhibitors will have to put up better quality stands......not use something that turns into a missile in bad weather.
Apparently the Simmenthal stand was perfect until the Blackwater stand hit it.

whelan2

wrangler wrote: »

The management has proved itself over the years, hopefully this year is a freak but exhibitors will have to put up better quality stands......not use something that turns into a missile in bad weather.
Apparently the Simmenthal stand was perfect until the Blackwater stand hit it.

I'm no fan of the mc hughs but year in year out they put on a great show. Fair play to them