Will you go to the ploughing 2018

Odyssey 2005 · 21-09-2018 6:14pm

Sacrolyte wrote: »

Will they exaggerate them for the tax man?

You kiddin...they lost millions doncha know

An opportunity to turn a pr disaster into a financial windfall.

whelan2 · 21-09-2018 6:14pm

Does the figures include those working on stands, working on site, participating in the ploughing etc or is it the paying public only?

charolais0153 · 21-09-2018 6:24pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Does the figures include those working on stands, working on site, participating in the ploughing etc or is it the paying public only?

Id say they count the stock. Aswell as the people!

Say my name · 21-09-2018 6:26pm

croot wrote: »

Anna Marie was on the radio saying if you turned up before 12.30 yesterday it was your own fault as you were told a decision was going to be made then. A bit arrogant I thought

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Anna Marie needs to realise which side her bread is buttered, don’t knock your paying patrons.

giveitholly wrote: »

Anna McHugh sounded very childish on radio a while ago giving out about deering announcing where next year's ploughing is,she said he put the whole event in jeopardy

alps wrote: »

One of the signs when great leaders have passed their sell by date is when ego starts to get in the way...

Not saying it has any relevance here!!

road_high wrote: »

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!

whelan2 wrote: »

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

If there is going to be a lesson learned from this whole debacle is that maybe they should employ a professional public relations person for front of screen and radio. The current face of the championships comes across as too gruff in front of camera.

JustJoe7240 · 21-09-2018 6:30pm

Box09 wrote: »

240 000 over 3 days, highly exaggerated figures

Based on?

Angus2018 · 21-09-2018 7:58pm

240,000? Sounds off.

wrangler · 21-09-2018 8:09pm

Say my name wrote: »

If there is going to be a lesson learned from this whole debacle is that maybe they should employ a professional public relations person for front of screen and radio. The current face of the championships comes across as too gruff in front of camera.

They'll be fine, all the complaints on here and most years you'd be walked on with the crowds.
Just shows how much difference our comments make

troyzer · 21-09-2018 8:21pm

Something that stuck with me was the Aldi stand. They were playing a video showcasing their suppliers including a cheese producer in the south west.

There was a line like "We produce the best buffalo mozzarella in Ireland. You don't need to be Italian to make great mozzarella".

Actually, legally you do. It's a protected term in the EU, you're only allowed to call it that if it's made in certain regions in Italy, same goes for Parmesan. Aldi should watch themselves.

Dunedin · 21-09-2018 8:24pm

People can choose of their own free will to attend or not and that includes boardies too!! No penalties from single payment, Glas, ANC, etc. for not attending.

I went on Thursday and the crowd was definitely down on other years but that made it easier to get round.

Is it perfect- no, but overall is it enjoyable- yes. And €20 is not bad value either.

Tinwhistle* · 21-09-2018 8:28pm

I was there today, very impressed tbh, well organised and loads to see. My first time there

Centrepassage · 21-09-2018 8:34pm

Very easy to get around today but most of the people in the various stands said numbers way down today. Said footfall was only 20% of previous days. Twenty thousand max I'd say. Lot of stands starting to pull the plug from lunchtime on. Still all the better for the public . Walk where ever you want and no waiting at any stand.

Lady Haywire · 21-09-2018 8:35pm

troyzer wrote: »

Something that stuck with me was the Aldi stand. They were playing a video showcasing their suppliers including a cheese producer in the south west.

There was a line like "We produce the best buffalo mozzarella in Ireland. You don't need to be Italian to make great mozzarella".

Actually, legally you do. It's a protected term in the EU, you're only allowed to call it that if it's made in certain regions in Italy, same goes for Parmesan. Aldi should watch themselves.

If it's made with buffalo milk, what else do you call it?

Muckit · 21-09-2018 8:45pm

Lady Haywire wrote: »

If it's made with buffalo milk, what else do you call it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_traditional_specialities_in_the_European_Union

This is what he's referring to, but not sure if mozzarella comes under this.

Say my name · 21-09-2018 8:46pm

wrangler wrote: »

They'll be fine, all the complaints on here and most years you'd be walked on with the crowds.
Just shows how much difference our comments make

It's not a public political broadcast wrangler. :pac:
Shooting the breeze is all.

Just when I saw all the comments I said I'd link them together with my own comment. It's the whole point of here.
Free and fair discussion.

But I'm not the only one saying that.
She's not exactly a people person maybe off screen but definitely not on screen.

She was on that Brendan o Connor show one night with Brendan, one of the rte news reporters and some gay social media lad. When they found out she was so serious the whole time the three of them just ripped the piss out of her about animal farming and how they were all vegan just to wind her up and see her fly.
She needs PR classes...at least for her own sake.

Lady Haywire · 21-09-2018 8:50pm

Muckit wrote: »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_traditional_specialities_in_the_European_Union

This is what he's referring to, but not sure if mozzarella comes under this.

Ah! Looks like that's only if you claim it's 'Mozzarella di Bufala Campana' though. Like Kobe beef compared to wagyu beef.

liam7831 · 21-09-2018 8:54pm

The ploughing is now more of a lifestyle festival which is fine and it gets phenomenal crowds every year but the agri machinery part is in steep decline, will be very little there of that in a few years I'd say. Think most people looking at new machinery go to Punchestown now

patsy_mccabe · 21-09-2018 8:58pm

I think with a lot of people it's about getting out in the fresh air for a day. A break from the routine.
Say what you will, it's seriously well organised event. The guards and the stewards do a great job.

whelan2 · 21-09-2018 8:59pm

Say my name wrote: »

It's not a public political broadcast wrangler. :pac:
Shooting the breeze is all.

Just when I saw all the comments I said I'd link them together with my own comment. It's the whole point of here.
Free and fair discussion.

But I'm not the only one saying that.
She's not exactly a people person maybe off screen but definitely not on screen.

She was on that Brendan o Connor show one night with Brendan, one of the rte news reporters and some gay social media lad. When they found out she was so serious the whole time the three of them just ripped the piss out of her about animal farming and how they were all vegan just to wind her up and see her fly.
She needs PR classes...at least for her own sake.

She's not going to change at her age

jfh · 21-09-2018 9:03pm

I was there Tues & enjoyed it, but agree with a few posters on here, Anna & all have done a great job, but surely it's time to add a little bit more professionalism to the public relations side, Anna was on the mic Tues, murmuring on ad-lib, no idea what she was saying, time to hand over the reins..

jomalone14 · 21-09-2018 9:10pm

Overall attendance down by 50,000 compared to last year......RTE 9 o'clock news just now

Say my name · 21-09-2018 9:13pm

whelan2 wrote: »

She's not going to change at her age

Life changes us all.

wrangler · 21-09-2018 9:15pm

jfh wrote: »

I was there Tues & enjoyed it, but agree with a few posters on here, Anna & all have done a great job, but surely it's time to add a little bit more professionalism to the public relations side, Anna was on the mic Tues, murmuring on ad-lib, no idea what she was saying, time to hand over the reins..

Have to get Marty on the mic so, I never llsten to it any way.

whelan2 · 21-09-2018 9:55pm

Was it officially announced where it will be next year?

White Clover · 21-09-2018 10:21pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Was it officially announced where it will be next year?

Carlow!

road_high · 21-09-2018 11:14pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Was it officially announced where it will be next year?

No, not officially. It appears Anna Marie got into a huge strop after Pat Deering Carlow/Kilkenny TD stole her thunder and think it won't be announced for another month. I don't think the Carlow option has/had been copper fastened yet.

fergus1001 · 22-09-2018 8:46am

they could move it back to athy again since they have the wiring down already apparently

Carlow might not be the best since most of the traffic will be coming from one direction

paddysdream · 22-09-2018 9:25am

road_high wrote: »

No, not officially. It appears Anna Marie got into a huge strop after Pat Deering Carlow/Kilkenny TD stole her thunder and think it won't be announced for another month. I don't think the Carlow option has/had been copper fastened yet.

Well seemingly contracts signed with landowners and land reseeded.Would be a bit late to change at this stage I would imagine.Think it was always coming to Carlow this year as they looked at another site or two as well.

Will this mean that in future as soon as deal is done everyone knows where its going.Hardly have a gag clause in the contracts?
In the Fighting Cocks area of Carlow its been common knowledge for 2 months or more regarding the possibility of the ploughing being held there.Anyone within 10 miles could tell you exactly which farms etc.
Hear a lot of accomodation is booked out in the general area a good while back.

Think Mammy May will have to come up with a new gimmick for the closing day of the show?

road_high · 22-09-2018 11:11am

Yea I heard it over a month ago too from a neighbouring farmer at Fighting Cocks but who knows now, they can probably still change it and have other options on standby.

davidk1394 · 22-09-2018 11:19am

Is Michael Lowery trying to get it in Thurles for the world ploughing?

AndrewJRenko · 22-09-2018 12:19pm

whelan2 wrote: »

No one can plan the weather unfortunately

No, but you can plan FOR the weather. Cancelling at such short notice seemed very disorganised and indecisive.

Box09 wrote: »

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.

Why does RTE provide hours of free coverage for a commercial event?

road_high · 22-09-2018 12:28pm

davidk1394 wrote: »

Is Michael Lowery trying to get it in Thurles for the world ploughing?

He was yes. Let’s face it, there’s virtually nothing going on around there so they’d love to hold it. I know there’s some tillage land around there but a big huge block like Athy or stradbally? I doubt it

fergus1001 · 22-09-2018 12:39pm

davidk1394 wrote:

Is Michael Lowery trying to get it in Thurles for the world ploughing?

the second coming of the "trip to tipp"

road_high · 22-09-2018 1:06pm

fergus1001 wrote: »

the second coming of the "trip to tipp"

Last time it was in Tipp it was a disaster.

davidk1394 · 22-09-2018 1:15pm

road_high wrote: »

He was yes. Let’s face it, there’s virtually nothing going on around there so they’d love to hold it. I know there’s some tillage land around there but a big huge block like Athy or stradbally? I doubt it

His trying to hold it on that big 800 acre farm where they were going to build that casino and hotoel so I believe. I’m sure coolmore could facilitate it :P

GrasstoMilk · 22-09-2018 1:48pm

davidk1394 wrote: »

His trying to hold it on that big 800 acre farm where they were going to build that casino and hotoel so I believe. I’m sure coolmore could facilitate it :P

I heard that too. But I don't know, they aren't going to set somewhere up for next year and then move everything for 2020. 250 acres more needed for world ploughing just for the ploughing

road_high · 22-09-2018 2:02pm

It’s after becoming very political. I guess the economic windfall must be in it as they usually follow the money!

goat2 · 22-09-2018 4:59pm

road_high wrote: »

Yea I heard it over a month ago too from a neighbouring farmer at Fighting Cocks but who knows now, they can probably still change it and have other options on standby.

Have they improved the roadway structure in Carlow, or are people going to find bottlenecks next year, I drive 4 hrs to the existing one, but it is well organised on the roadway outside the event, two lane traffic going the one way, it is just top notch, the police and everyone keeping it well running there, But if Carlow is going to be a bottle neck, why should I drive that distance only to be bottle necked in Carlow for an hour , I would have spent long enough in a car beside something like that keeping me in it longer

road_high · 22-09-2018 5:40pm

goat2 wrote: »

Have they improved the roadway structure in Carlow, or are people going to find bottlenecks next year, I drive 4 hrs to the existing one, but it is well organised on the roadway outside the event, two lane traffic going the one way, it is just top notch, the police and everyone keeping it well running there, But if Carlow is going to be a bottle neck, why should I drive that distance only to be bottle necked in Carlow for an hour , I would have spent long enough in a car beside something like that keeping me in it longer

Carlow will be very easy if coming from Munster, south Leinster or Dublin. The M9 motorway is very close to the site at J5. Also M11 improvements will help for Wexford Wicklow side.
But the town itself would be still very bad for traffic- I reckon they’ll be swinging midlands traffic on/off J2, J3 and J4 of the M9 to avoid all that. Infrastructure wise the south east is good, far better than last time it was in Carlow.
Portlaoise has been a bottle neck for us coming from the south east to Tullamore too!!

goat2 · 22-09-2018 5:56pm

Do we have to go through the town, or do they have a route that would avoid the town , also shuttle busses would be a great idea if the town cannot be avoided

dzer2 · 22-09-2018 7:34pm

goat2 wrote: »

Do we have to go through the town, or do they have a route that would avoid the town , also shuttle busses would be a great idea if the town cannot be avoided

Yea the town can be avoided now as the internal ring road is completed also the motorway will bring you out on the N80. They can do 2 exits anyone coming from the south can be diverted at Paulstown, the west can use the internal ring road and from Dublin down the motorway. Wexford will come up the N80.

Dakota Dan · 22-09-2018 8:57pm

It's become some circus since I first went in 1984

Say my name · 22-09-2018 9:13pm

Remember it's not about the personalities it's about the about the art of turning the sod with the horse.

Having said that....

National Ploughing (@NPAIE) Tweeted:
Don’t miss tonight’s @RTERayDarcyShow @RTEOne to catch the inspirational ladies behind ‘Ploughing’ Anna May & Anna Marie McHugh live on the show @FarmersMonthly @farmersjournal @AgrilandIreland https://twitter.com/NPAIE/status/1043582763755024385?s=17

Say my name · 22-09-2018 9:16pm

Dakota Dan wrote: »

It's become some circus since I first went in 1984

+ 1.

Muckit · 22-09-2018 9:18pm

I hear it's staying in Tullamore in a smaller, more farmer focused show...
#Tullamoreshow

ganmo · 22-09-2018 9:31pm

Muckit wrote: »

I hear it's staying in Tullamore in a smaller, more farmer focused show...
#Tullamoreshow

Changing to a one day show and moving to the first weekend in August? :P

Beechwoodspark · 22-09-2018 9:34pm

Anna may is going to be on ray Darcy show tonight to give the propaganda version of what happened

whelan2 · 22-09-2018 9:36pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Anna may is going to be on ray Darcy show tonight to give the propaganda version of what happened

Ray Darcy :cool: hope she's on first cant stand him

tanko · 22-09-2018 9:38pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Anna may is going to be on ray Darcy show tonight to give the propaganda version of what happened

I rather put a graipe through my foot than watch that.

Butcher Boy · 22-09-2018 9:45pm

tanko wrote: »

I rather put a graipe through my foot than watch that.

She spitting and spouting **** and the daughter is worse.

road_high · 22-09-2018 9:47pm

dzer2 wrote: »

Yea the town can be avoided now as the internal ring road is completed also the motorway will bring you out on the N80. They can do 2 exits anyone coming from the south can be diverted at Paulstown, the west can use the internal ring road and from Dublin down the motorway. Wexford will come up the N80.

Probably bus transfers off the train from
Mhuine Beag and Carlow railway stations too..

Will you go to the ploughing 2018

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