Today at the championships: what's on

9am - Trade machinery and livestock exhibition; European Commission forums; Land-Rover Terrapod demonstration; vintage exhibition…

9am -Trade machinery and livestock exhibition; European Commission forums; Land-Rover Terrapod demonstration; vintage exhibition; threshing.

10am -ICA demonstrations: Men's Health promotion by HSE; Entertainment on bandstand: Eimer Dunne Ensemble.

10.30am -National ploughing classes begin; supreme senior conventional tractor class (day two); standard 3-furrow; standard 3-furrow reversible; visitors (day two); special horse class; vintage, single-furrow vintage mounted; Kverneland reversible test.

11am -Hot saw warm-up, Irish relay, safety equipment demonstration, Martin Komerack spring board, single buck demo, Spike Milton hot saw; workshop in Horse Racing Ireland marquee hosted by Hector Ó hEochagáin; ICA demonstrations: Environmental office - reduce, reuse and recycle. Entertainment on bandstand: Rahan Comhaltas.

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Noon -ICA demonstrations: Holistic Shop, Clara. Entertainment on bandstand: Meet the Feckers.

12.30pm -Fashion show.

1pm -ICA demonstrations: The Occasional Hat by Imelda Byrne. Entertainment on bandstand: PJ Murrihy.

2pm -ICA demonstrations: health and safety at home; hot saw warm-up, Irish relay, safety equipment demo; Martin Komerack spring board, single buck demo, Spike Milton hot saw. Entertainment on bandstand: Rahan Comhaltas.

2.30pm -Ploughing competitions conclude.

2.30pm -Workshop in Horse Racing Ireland marquee hosted by Hector Ó hEochagáin.

3pm -Fashion show; ICA demonstrations - Third World self-help by David Murray. Entertainment on bandstand: Meet the Feckers.

4pm -Entertainment on bandstand: PJ Murrihy.

4.30pm -Workshop in Horse Racing Ireland marquee hosted by Hector Ó hEochagáin.

5pm -Entertainment on bandstand: Mountbolus Pipe Band.

6pm -Ploughing competition results to be announced.

6.30pm -Closedown.

Selected results

Junior Conventional: 1, Philip Murphy (Waterford) 314; 2, Anthony Reynolds (Longford) 296; 3, Michael Geraghty (Roscommon) 294.

Farmerette: 1, Michele Kehoe (Wexford) 161; 2, Anna Marie McHugh (Laois) 160; 3, Sinéad Hayes (Cork East) 157.

Visitors: 1, Pat O'Donnell (Tyrone) 356; 2, Thomas Campbell (Derry) 349; 3, Joe Gibson (Down) 339.

Senior Horse: 1, Gerry King (Louth) 166; 2, John Sheehan (Cork East) 157; 3, John O'Donovan (Cork West) 155.

Senior Reversible: 1, John Whelan (Wexford) 253; 2, Liam O'Driscoll (Cork West) 246; 3, Brian Ireland (Kilkenny) 229.