{"id":589660,"date":"2026-08-11T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589660\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:32:10","slug":"wexford-ploughmen-to-represent-ireland-at-european-vintage-ploughing-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589660\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford ploughmen to represent Ireland at European Vintage Ploughing Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a7abe3fa8a020cca32.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two Wexford ploughmen will represent Ireland at the European Vintage Ploughing Championships in Belgium this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Rathangan\u2019s\u00a0Jim Cullen, representing Wexford Ploughing, will compete in the\u00a0Vintage Trailed Class, while fellow Wexford competitor\u00a0James Stafford\u00a0will take part in the\u00a0Vintage Classic Class.<\/p>\n<p>They will be joined on the Republic of Ireland Vintage Ploughing Team by\u00a0Ray Clancy of North Tipperary Ploughing, who will compete in the Vintage Mounted Class.<\/p>\n<p>The European Championships take place in\u00a0Hamont-Achel, Belgium, on Saturday and Sunday, 15th and 16th August.<\/p>\n<p>The Wexford representatives will be hoping to put in strong performances as they compete against some of Europe&#8217;s best vintage ploughmen.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to Jim, James and Ray \u2014 and hopefully they can bring some silverware home to Ireland!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Wexford ploughmen will represent Ireland at the European Vintage Ploughing Championships in Belgium this weekend. Rathangan\u2019s\u00a0Jim Cullen,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,1529,8284,43,700,151809,9270],"class_list":["post-589660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-south-east-radio","tag-wexford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}