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Spot a ‘Certa ‘billboard road sign and win tickets to this year’s National Ploughing Championships
NPA are delighted to announce that Certa will again be the official fuel sponsor for this year’s National Ploughing Championships & European Vintage Contest taking place in Ratheniska, Co Laois on September 17th, 18th & 19th. Celebrating the return of this successful partnership, over one hundred promotional road sign billboards have been installed at key locations throughout the country.
To be in with a chance to win a pair of complimentary tickets to this year’s event simply take a photo of a sign in your locality and share on NPA/Certa socials (*strictly when safe to do so).
At the Certa/#Ploughing2024 launch NPA Managing Director Anna May McHugh spoke of how she was looking forward to working with Certa again in the run up to and during this year’s Championships. The NPA MD said “I am delighted that Certa are on board again this year as the official fuel sponsorship partner of the largest outdoor event in Europe with over 250,000 visitors expected throughout the 3 days.
Euronics is announced as the new sponsor of the National Brown Bread Baking Competition 2024
Final to take place on 19th September at National Ploughing Championships, Ratheniska, Co. Laois
Winner to take home a cash prize of €5000 PLUS a NEFF Slide & Hide oven (RRP €2,019)
Today (Thursday, 16th May) Euronics was unveiled as the new sponsor of the National Brown Bread Baking Competition, in association with the National Ploughing Association (NPA) and the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA).
Brown bread is a quintessentially Irish product found in most of the homes around the country. Everyone has their own recipe and their secret ingredient But – can YOUR favourite win the coveted title and can YOU bake your way to the top spot.
The winning brown bread baker will walk away with a cash prize of €5000 and a NEFF oven, with the three finalists all walking away with a €500 Euronics gift card.
Daragh Lynch, CEO Euronics Ireland said at today’s launch at the Home of Innovation in Ballymount “We are thrilled to be sponsoring this iconic competition. Every week up and down the country NEFF ovens are baking delicious loaves of brown bread and we look forward to tasting all the entries. Our winner will walk away with a great cash prize and a versatile top of the range NEFF oven”.
All entrants (one entry per person) are being asked to drop their freshly baked bread to one of the stores below (all part of the Euronics portfolio) on the prescribed dates between 09.00am – 11.00am. Bread will NOT be accepted outside of these times. Five bakers will be invited to join the three finalists from the ICA. Two semi-finals of four bakers will take place on 17th and 18thSeptember at the National Ploughing Championships with the final four bakers taking to the baking stage on September 19th.
All successful entrants will be contacted on August 12th and invited to attend The National Ploughing Championships Brown Bread Baking Tent.