National Ploughing Championships

The final sod has been turned at a scaled back National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co Laois with Wexford men Martin Kehoe and Dan Donnelly(...)

“Ladies and gentleman, we’re back,” Michael Mahon, chairman of the National Ploughing Association, roared into the microphone on day one of the three-(...)

The Dublin Horse Show has been cancelled for the second year in a row. Last year’s show was an early casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic and was cance(...)

The Electric Picnic promoter has said it hopes to go ahead with the festival if the Government’s vaccination programme is completed in time. * In a s(...)

It will be a Late Late Toy Show like no other in a year like no other. So many fixtures of the Irish calendar, the St Patrick’s Day parades, the Dubl(...)

The #MeToo and Waking the Feminists movements demonstrate how far women are from achieving gender equality, Dr Catherine Day has said. Dr Day, chairw(...)

In the Methuen Book of Poems for Every Day, the month of October opens with a verse about ploughing. Well, sort of: It’s Patrick Kavanagh’s October, a(...)

Gabriel Makhlouf, the Central Bank of Ireland’s governor of 12 months, has not been immune to time taking on a whole new meaning in the world of Covid(...)

Tipperary GAA is teaming up with Irish technology company Future Ticketing to provide cashless entry to this year’s county hurling and football champi(...)

This year’s Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally, Co Laois, has been cancelled by its organisers due to the coronavirus pandemic. A statement posted(...)