Category: Exhibitor News 2018

This year Irish Rail- Iarnrod Eireann will be taking part at this years National Ploughing.

We are building a real level crossing include track and infrastructure. We will be replicating a collision at the level crossing between a train and a car. A real crashed car and replica piece of a train will be used. The objective of our attendance is to promote level crossing awareness and increased safety with road users.

We will also have an awareness campaign running to highlight the overhead height restrictions at our railway bridges to drivers of lorries /hgvs.

Rína Mara is an Irish owned, family business based in An Spidéal, we harvest wild, organic seaweed on the west coast and combine with natural botanical extracts to create a unique, effective skincare range.

All Rí Na Mara products incorporate the purest natural ingredients from marine or plant origin to immerse your skin with proteins, nutrients, anti-oxidants that stimulate hydration and restore firmer, glowing skin.

Rína Mara have recently launched a fabulous Hyaluronic Acid Eye Cream to reduce puffiness, dark circles and fine lines this complements our natural skincare range especially our most popular anti-ageing Face Cream. At the ploughing we are offering a gift set including Face Cream and Eye Cream at a special discounted price  €45.00

Rína Mara Intensive renewal Facial oil promotes Collagen production helping to smooth lines and wrinkles while visibly firming skin Special price €22.00

Visit RÍ NA MARA  Stand

Indoor Stand: Slaney &Suir, Block 3, Row: 30 Stand : 626 Unit 22

Outdoor Stand : Block 3, Row: 33 Stand : 657 at the Ploughing championship and sample full product range, Special offers and Competition

” Best Farmer picture on Rína Mara stand wins prize for wife/ partner “

Visit website  www.rinamara.com  for natural beauty and healthy lifestyle.

PVC Fabrications news. We will be showcasing the following at the Ploughing 2018

• Our own water pipe & fittings Brand “Gripmax” has launched a new range of Ultra smooth Hydrodare pipe for better flow rates.
• Available nationwide through leading merchants.
• Our own brand “Polimax” has launched a range of Poly Transfer shovels &  Nylon drinkers/protectors. Available nationwide through leading merchants.
• We have also launched a new range of Supreme Access junctions for the Construction industry. NOW CERTIFIED to IRISH WATER requirements. Available nationwide through leading merchants.

At the Irish Kidney Association (IKA) stand (no. 666!!) at the National Ploughing Championships there will be a raffle with first prize a pedigree Friesian heifer while at another stand another heifer, a Simmental, will be raffled with proceeds also going to the charity.  Both heifers were donated by grateful kidney transplant recipient farmers.

The Friesian heifer for which raffle tickets can be purchased at the IKA stand has been kindly donated by father and son Larry and Kieran Dunican from Horseleap, Co Westmeath. Larry is a kidney transplant recipient and his wife Eileen is the Treasurer of the Westmeath branch of the Irish Kidney Association. When the Ploughing Championships  took place two years ago, the Dunicans donated another heifer which was in calf for the IKA raffle. Second prize at this year’s raffle is a Karcher K 5 power cleaner and third prize is 2 nights and breakfast for two staying at Lough Rynn Castle. 

A raffle for another heifer will take place at the Irish Simmental Society stand where the animal will be displayed. Suckler farmer Liam Martin from Templederry in Nenagh, kindly donated the heifer to raise funds for the irish Kidney Association and increase organ donor awareness. His son Darren donated a kidney to him in April 2015 (when Darren was just 25 years old). Liam will also be entering his prized plough bull in competition. Liam plans to travel back and forth to the ploughing championships for the three days while his kidney donor son will not be able to attend as he is working in Germany.  Photos are attached of Liam with the heifer and another photo attached is of Liam with his kidney donor son Darren.

Liam enjoys attending the ploughing championships every year and in fact when he was waiting for a kidney transplant he turned down an important hospital appointment in order to attend the ploughing instead but it was rescheduled for a few days later. Prior to Liam’s  kidney transplant, Darren turned down a university place in Austria to do his Masters as he was concerned for his father who had been quite unwell with dialysis treatment which he commenced on Christmas eve 2012 and instead decided to put himself forward for the living donation process.