Will you go to ploughing 2019?

whelan2

Not going this year, too much work to catch up on

whelan2

Poll wont work. Maybe one of the mods can look at it please

dzer2

Yeah have free tickets

Mooooo

What's the youngest ye would take with ye? BIL has a just turned 5 and 7 yr old planning on going. Depends on weather and that if I can go with him as gone for 2 days this week already

mahoney_j

Yep def going always great day and never know who you’d meet

Say my name

I'll surely be going when it's just a short spin up the road.

alps

Booked into the campervan area for Tuesday night. Never stayed before. Wouldn't mind seeing if there would be a bit of crack around at night...do the bars stay open?

toleratethis

Where do I look to find out what's there? I've a small interest in going one day but find it hard to get information online.

mahoney_j

alps wrote: »

Booked into the campervan area for Tuesday night. Never stayed before. Wouldn't mind seeing if there would be a bit of crack around at night...do the bars stay open?

Is there a spare bed in that caravan !!!!

Cran

alps wrote: »

Booked into the campervan area for Tuesday night. Never stayed before. Wouldn't mind seeing if there would be a bit of crack around at night...do the bars stay open?

Fighting cocks pub will be open right beside site

MickeyShtyles

Aye going on the Tuesday. Few bits to look at.

RMAOK

Don't know if I'll be going yet - probably won't, it's a long way down for me.

Albert Johnson

The better half and myself go every year, I introduced her to it when we met and she looks forward to it as much as I do. It's a fair drive this time round so she booked accommodation and we're staying two nights. I've only ever been for the one day previously so hopefully be a more relaxed experience this year.

_Brian

Maybe, depends on weather and host of other “stuff”

Mac Taylor

The plan is to go Wednesday as I missed Tullamore, youngest lad has been saving all year for this.:D

Never wrestle with pigs

I'll go the first day hopefully, if the strikes are over. Something tells me creed will want it done and dusted before then.

Base price

OH and I planned on going this year as it's been a few years since we were there. I don't know which day yet.

Dunedin

Not going this year

freedominacup

I wouldn't go across the road to it unless I was in the market for something and could see a lot of the options in one place. Other than that a waste of a day. The bit that always blows me away is paying in to a place where you are simply going to.be bombarded by advertising for the day. Even the social media sites don't charge to get in. That and the volunteers. God help them. Volunteering to add to Anna May's bottom line.

revoke12

Going on the Thursday all going well this year- weather is looking promising so far too!

Reggie.

Yeah I'll be going this year I hope

fits

Cran wrote: »

alps wrote: »

Booked into the campervan area for Tuesday night. Never stayed before. Wouldn't mind seeing if there would be a bit of crack around at night...do the bars stay open?

Fighting cocks pub will be open right beside site

Fighting cocks is closing for the ploughing.

mayota

fits wrote: »

Fighting cocks is closing for the ploughing.

Would they be transferring the license to the beer tent?

Sacrolyte

Mooooo wrote: »

What's the youngest ye would take with ye? BIL has a just turned 5 and 7 yr old planning on going. Depends on weather and that if I can go with him as gone for 2 days this week already

Ur brother in law is really young

fits

mayota wrote: »

fits wrote: »

Fighting cocks is closing for the ploughing.

Would they be transferring the license to the beer tent?

I don’t know. All I know is that the pub is closed.

Say my name

fits wrote: »

I don’t know. All I know is that the pub is closed.

From looking at the traffic map. The fighting cocks is within the actual ploughing site boundary.
And the N80 outside is closed to traffic other than the ploughing match traffic.
So appears to be a npa and nra decision to close it.

Water John

The likelyhood is the licence is transferred, as Mayota suggests.

Reggie.

Wonder will the meat industry be there

Base price

Reggie. wrote: »

Wonder will the meat industry be there

Well I hope the Beef Plan/Independent Farmers or whatever you call them aren't there/protesting.

dzer2

Are you going Reggie if so are you calling for tea.

Reggie.

dzer2 wrote: »

Are you going Reggie if so are you calling for tea.

Last time I called you weren't there ya swine

Base price

As an aside since I haven't been to the Ploughing Championships for the last few years I wonder if the Bord Bia stand will still promote FR/FR cross beef as the preferred option.
I reckon they will unless you live under a rock.

Dickie10

think ill go , last time was 2015 in laois

older by the day

Base price wrote: »

Reggie. wrote: »

Wonder will the meat industry be there

Well I hope the Beef Plan/Independent Farmers or whatever you call them aren't there/protesting.

Why would it disturb you? I'm sure the other organizations, Healy and his pals, will be doing enough brown nosing.

RobinBanks

Hi. Just wondering if you would get better deal on buying machinery at ploughing rather than going to a local distributor? Thinking of buying a TR-4 bale handler.

patsy_mccabe

I'd normally go, but the enthusiasm isn't there this year.

freedominacup

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I'd normally go, but the enthusiasm isn't there this year.

I read enthusiasm as euthanasism at first.

maconof

Swore I wouldn't go again after last year and travelling 3 hours only to find out it was cancelled right as we got to the car park gate.

So obviously I'm going again this year after 12 months of reflection.

Muckit

I went to the one in Tullamore a month ago

Sheep breeder

mayota wrote: »

Would they be transferring the license to the beer tent?

The word is the man that owns the site bought a licence and has all the beer on site sown up and for the next three years.

laoisgem

I'll be there for the 3 days as I'm working at it, have never been before, even as a spectator :eek:

NoviGlitzko

Raging I can't go, can't get it off work.

grassroot1

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I'd normally go, but the enthusiasm isn't there this year.

ya lazy devil get up and come look at the good Carlow land!!!

grassroot1

maconof wrote: »

Swore I wouldn't go again after last year and travelling 3 hours only to find out it was cancelled right as we got to the car park gate.

So obviously I'm going again this year after 12 months of reflection.

Same here Which day is the auld bat giving reduced entry to make up for last year

TheBoyConor

I think I'll skip it. Ploughing match is just the same aul craic year in year out. Sure I know what will be there - shiney new tractors, machinery, stalls and tents selling and promoting all sorts of shíte. Teenagers acting the gobshíte. Miles of a walk from a car park field that it takes hours to get in and out of. And if it rains, an absolute sea of muck.
Ploughing and demonstrations of machines that you know they work already and will never want to buy anyhow.

That's all there is to it. yawn.

Say my name

grassroot1 wrote: »

ya lazy devil get up and come look at the good Carlow land!!!

Just went up yesterday and passed through Fenagh to get the lie of the land.

Things I noticed:
Fenagh is now a small town with housing estates.
Farmers in the area had massive two storey houses hundreds of years ago and that trend is still continuing.
Cutting granite into blocks seems to have been a favourite past time.
There's lots of straw left on the land.

revoke12

Can someone tell me rouhgly how far is Fenagh from Kilkenny? I know with traffic etc I will expect delays just wondering rough?

paddysdream

Sheep breeder wrote: »

The word is the man that owns the site bought a licence and has all the beer on site sown up and for the next three years.

One of the land owners bought a local pub about 2 years ago and has a beer tent at the event

Say my name

revoke12 wrote: »

Can someone tell me rouhgly how far is Fenagh from Kilkenny? I know with traffic etc I will expect delays just wondering rough?

It's not really in Fenagh but I think the Kilkenny and Waterford traffic will be directed through it.
It's really just a few miles north of Ballon beside the main road.

Google maps will be your friend on this to work out where you're currently located and how long and far it is to Fenagh.
The site is about 2 or 3 miles further on from Fenagh. It's a narrow bumpy road so there will be delays.

hopeso

Say my name wrote: »

It's not really in Fenagh but I think the Kilkenny and Waterford traffic will be directed through it.
It's really just a few miles north of Ballon beside the main road.

Google maps will be your friend on this to work out where you're currently located and how long and far it is to Fenagh.
The site is about 2 or 3 miles further on from Fenagh. It's a narrow bumpy road so there will be delays.

There will be traffic plans in place for miles before you get to the site. There's no point planning your route on a map. You'll just have to go the way you're sent, which may not be the direct route. There is a map and a guide to the traffic plans on the NPA website.

Cran

revoke12 wrote: »

Can someone tell me rouhgly how far is Fenagh from Kilkenny? I know with traffic etc I will expect delays just wondering rough?

30 minutes approx. from city. as a journey I ve done for 15 years. Think Kilkenny is probably one of the more direct routes as bringing the traffic in through the village and down to the site. best to aim for Borris and travel from there as yellow carparks are closer to the site than any of the others.