Irish tv broadcasting live from national ploughing championships

Irish TV is broadcasting three days of live coverage from this year’s National Ploughing Championships, which got underway this morning in Laois.

Live coverage from the event will be broadcast online from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sky TV from 3 to 5 p.m. each day from September 23-25. This marathon live broadcast will air on the Irish TV channel on Sky 191, Freesat 400, all free-to-air boxes, Eircom’s eVision 191 and online at www.irishtv.ie.

To mark the occasion, Irish TV, which has its headquarters in Westport, is also launching its new agricultural programme, Grassroots, today. Grassroots is Ireland’s first 32-county agriculture programme that will visit a different homestead each week to show what life is like on the small family farm. Grassroots will also highlight the importance of agri-trade links to farmers on both sides of the border.

The three-day live show from the Ploughing Championships will include expert interviews from senior figures in Irish agriculture. Host Pierce O’Reilly will also chat to farmers taking part in the championships and some of the previous year’s winners.

“The National Ploughing Championships is the highlight of the social calendar in rural Ireland and we are delighted to be able to broadcast three days of wall-to-wall coverage from the event,” said Irish TV head of broadcast Malachi Cush.