{"id":627742,"date":"2026-09-17T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627742\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:38:09","slug":"ploughing-championships-moving-to-co-kildare-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627742\/","title":{"rendered":"Ploughing Championships moving to Co Kildare next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organisers of the National Ploughing Championships have announced that the event will move to Co Kildare next year.<\/p>\n<p>For the past five years, Screggan in Co Offaly has staged The Ploughing, however, Rathangan in Kildare will be the new host venue next year.<\/p>\n<p>75,000 people attended the final day of the NPC in Screggan today, with 243,000 visitors through the gates across the three days of the event.<\/p>\n<p>The total attendance for The Ploughing, which is Europe&#8217;s largest outdoor event, was up by around 18,000 on last year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/lifestyle\/food\/2026\/0917\/1591947-dublin-woman-wins-brown-bread-baking-competition-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Breadwinners &#8211; Dublin duo claim national baking crowns and dough<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organisers of the National Ploughing Championships have announced that the event will move to Co Kildare next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-627742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627742","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=627742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}