THE 2015 National Ploughing Championships will not be held in County Carlow – a crushing economic blow, which would have been worth a staggering €36.5m to the local economy. Speculation had been rifle for several months that the 2015 event would be held in Grangeford, Tullow on the same site as the 2006 World Ploughing … Continue reading €40m blow as Carlow misses out on ploughing