{"id":625409,"date":"2026-09-15T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/625409\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:52:09","slug":"i-just-love-it-crowds-excited-as-ploughing-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/625409\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I just love it&#8217; &#8211; crowds excited as Ploughing under way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Ploughing Championships are under way in Screggan, Co Offaly and excitement levels are high among attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 80,000 people are expected to attend today and while it is an annual event for many, there are a lot of first-timers taking it all in too.<\/p>\n<p>The O\u2019Donovan family travelled up from Co Cork for the day after hearing great things about it over the years &#8211; the day off school a particular draw for primary school pupils Ivor and Pearl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the best, I love it,&#8221; Ivor told RT\u00c9 News. &#8220;The tractors have got massive. I like looking at the old ones and the new ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His little sister Pearl was excited to get a new teddy. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to hear more from people at the Ploughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Ploughing Championships are under way in Screggan, Co Offaly and excitement levels are high among attendees.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-625409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625409","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=625409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}