The Central Bank of Ireland is back at the Ploughing Championships for 2017!

This year’s exhibition showcases the iconic notes and coins of Ireland since independence. Visitors can learn about the Central Bank and win prizes by spinning the wheel, lifting an exact replica of a gold-bar to guess its weight or taking a selfie with €500,000 in shredded banknotes. The exhibition will explain how euro coins are minted and describe the process of developing a euro banknote. The exhibition is designed to show how the euro in your pocket supports commerce.

Experts will be on hand to answer questions about the exhibition and we will have Media Relations Officers on site on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the exhibition and the new Central Bank Visitor Centre and Archives, which opened to the public last month.

Euro Auctions

Euro Auctions are again proud to exhibit at the National Ploughing Championships. Since we exhibited last year the organisation has grown substantially with the acquisition of a US based auctioneer – Yoder & Frey.  Euro Auctions will now trade under this brand name in North America.  Further to that we have recently opened up new auction sites in Dubai and Hong Kong enhancing our global reach.

We regard to our stand this year we will again have our excavator simulator in place where people can compete to the best excavator drive by completing a challenge.  During the course of the Ploughing we actually have two auction taking place – Zaragoza Spain and Ashland Ohio , USA.  We will be streaming these live at our stand and viewers can see first-hand how the auctions work and how easy online bidding/buying is.