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Crumbs of comfort: There’s no ploughing championships but Kilkenny bakers can still enter national brown bread competition

By Kilkenny Now 10th August 2020 0

The pandemic may have caused the National Ploughing Championships to be cancelled this year but Kilkenny  bakers will find crumbs of comfort in the news that the national brown bread competition will still go ahead. Aldi will once again, sponsor The National Brown Bread Baking Competition, in association with the National Ploughing Association (NPA) and […]

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PLOUGHING UPDATE: Record numbers flock to Championship as congestion on Kilkenny roads eases

By Kilkenny Now 19th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY AN all-time record number of visitors attended Day 2 of the National Ploughing Championship, with 116,000 passing through the gates. And with temperatures set to hit up to 24 degrees on site today, record crowds are still flocking to the county Carlow site to take in the last hours of one of […]

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BREAKING: M9 Motorway closed following serious accident, ploughing traffic diverted

By Kilkenny Now 19th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE M9 has been shut down in both directions following a serious accident in the last hour. The emergency services are asking people attending the Ploughing Championship to avoid the M9 and find alternative routes. Gardai rushed to the scene and immediately closed the motorway between Junction 4, Castledermot and Junction 6, […]

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PLOUGHING SPECIAL: Kilkenny’s best side out for glorious first day at the Championship

By Kilkenny Now 18th September 2019 0

DESPITE from some traffic issues on the first day of the ploughing championship in Fennagh, Co Carlow, the crowds turned out in record numbers to soak up the sun and soak up the atmosphere. Organisers say over 100,000 visitors came to the championships on Day 1 and as the weather is set to remain glorious […]

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Ploughing Championships: Kilkenny commuters caught-up in massive 15km tailbacks

By Kilkenny Now 17th September 2019 Post a comment

By COLIN BARTLEY DELAYS of up to three to four hours and 15 kilometre tailbacks stretching into Kilkenny county have plagued the first morning of the National Ploughing Championship. The worst affect traffic routes are the two going through Kilkenny to the championship site in Fennagh, county Carlow. Those stuck in traffic took to social […]

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PLOUGH ON! Our complete guide to the 2019 National Ploughing Championships

By Kilkenny Now 16th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY UP to 250,000 people are expected to descend upon a small village in neighbouring Carlow this week, for Europe’s largest agricultural show. The National Ploughing Championships takes place this year in Ballintrane, Fenagh, county Carlow. Now in its 88th edition, organisers say the event could top the records crowds seen last year […]

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WEEKEND WEATHER: Kilkenny to bask in late, late Indian summer

By Kilkenny Now 13th September 2019 0

TEMPERATURES plummeted pretty dramatically last night, so you could have been forgiven for assuming the summer (what little we saw of it!) was well and truly over. But the good, and slightly bizarre news, is that temperatures are set to see-saw in the opposite direction this weekend, with temperatures soaring to a positively balmy 20C-plus […]

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MICHAEL WOLSEY: Farming is a mystery in the land of urban myths

By Kilkenny Now 11th September 2019 0

WHERE does milk come from? Straight from the fridge, said 18 per cent of British schoolchildren interviewed for a recent study. And they weren’t trying to be funny. Well, I suspect some of them were. But 40% of the children interviewed genuinely did not know that milk comes from cows. It was clear from other […]