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14 Dec 2025

GALLERY: The Offaly Express at the 2017 National Ploughing Championships

The curtain has come down on the National Ploughing Championships of 2017 with record attendances making the Offaly event the biggest ever.

Despite rain and flooding on Day 2, spirits were high photographer Alf Harvey and our reporters were out and about capturing the whole event.

291,500 people passed through the gates at the site in Screggan between September 19 - 21. 

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