Test of skill, dexterity and speed can win visitors a Kids 50cc Quad Bike at National Ploughing Championships

Visitors to the Hansen stand at the National Ploughing Championships (Stand 118, Block 1, row 5) will have an opportunity to test their dexterity, skill and speed in assembling pipes and fittings and be in with a chance to win a Kids Quad bike.

During the three days of the event a series of competitions will be held at the Hansen stand. A maximum of six participants will take part in each competition which will be held every half hour from 10am to 4pm each day. Competitors will race each other using all the Hansen pipe and fittings supplied to assemble the letter ‘H’. The fastest to finish, subject to a full inspection, will be announced via live broadcast on Facebook.

All of the individual competition winners will be entered into a draw and the winner of the Kids 50cc Quad Bike will be chosen at random in a live broadcast on the Sanbra Fyffe Facebook page at 5pm on Thursday, September 21st.

Sanbra Fyffe can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SanbraFyffe/ Sanbra Fyffe, market leader in the supply of plumbing and heating products in Ireland, and Herron & Son, Ireland’s leading hardware distributor, recently teamed up with the long established new Zealand firm Hansen to bring an unrivalled and internationally acclaimed range of products to the Irish market. Products specifically for agri, rural, horticultural and irrigation use are Hi-Flo Trough Valves (Fast, Super and Maxflo). Sanbra Fyffe and Herron believe that the Hansen Superflo and Maxflo valves will quickly become the next industry standard for high performance float valves.

National Ploughing Championship Results 2017

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DAY THREE

Results Day Three

SUN SETS ON THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PLOUGHING CHAMPIONSHIPS OF ALL

As the final flow of traffic from the car parks leave this evening, the total attendance figure for the 86th Championships came to a record breaking 291,500 over the 3 days, with exhibitors and visitors alike thoroughly enjoying themselves, this marks the most successful National Ploughing Championships to date.

Speaking at the close of business, NPA Managing Director Anna May McHugh said “Despite experiencing a wet Wednesday during the 3 day festival, the overall mood for this year’s Ploughing has been incredibly buoyant and positive. With so much for visitors to enjoy from quality livestock and serious machinery to fashion, celebrities and sports stars galore there was something for every member of the family to enjoy.”

Attending today, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar congratulated the NPA on another successful year, he paid tribute to Ms Anna May McHugh, the NPA, staff and the several hundred volunteers required to host an event of it’s scale and scope.

Jack Nagle, a 16 year old student from Kerry was the popular winner of the Enterprise Ireland, NPA, FJ Innovation Arena “People’s Choice Award” with his Tractor Safe Lock initiative. The hotly contested National Brown Bread Baking final took place in the Aldi tent in front of an audience of several hundred. The overall winner in first place was Mary Conway from Sligo, who was absolutely delighted with her win. Edward Roe from Tipperary beat off some stiff competition to be crowned the winner of the inaugural Macra Safe Driving competition.

In the ploughing competition Eamonn Tracey from Carlow won the overall Conventional class, while Wexford man John Whelan won the Reversible Ploughing competition. Both men will again represent Ireland at the World Ploughing contest in Germany next year.

The NPA would like to wish everyone a safe journey home and thank all for making this the most successful Championships of all time.