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THE NATIONAL PLOUGHING Championships is about a lot more than just ploughing these days. Once again, hundreds of thousands of people made the journey to the sprawling site in Co Offaly this week – to check out new inventions, to attend cooking demos, or even just to catch up with old friends.
But the competitive ploughing remains a major draw too – over 350 competitors showcased their skills at Screggan to either defend their title or to challenge a long-standing champion.
What keeps them coming back each September? “It’s lovely to have the horses working and it’s lovely to go out into a field on a day working your horses,” Kerry’s Moss Trant told us.
“I know it is not an efficient way anymore unfortunately … but animals are great and kind things to work with you know? And we have great respect for our animals.”
- Video by Andrew Roberts
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Seriously, if you don’t know the symptoms and what to do around a suspected Covid case at this stage, you must be living on another planet!!
@Joan Featherstone: or you are Phil Hogan
@Joan Featherstone: while on one hand I agree with you. I think the grey area will be the other routine ailments which they appear to be trying to give guidance on. What happens when an asthmatic child coughs throu the winter….
Parents need to know CDC lists runny noses and sneezing as covid symptoms in children.
agreed. This Covid 19 is some trailblazer of a virus when it comes to re-writing the rule book on viruses isnt it?? Theyve thrown everything out the window with this one.
we cant assume its seasonal even though it sure as hell looks like it…
we cant assume healthy kids dont transfer it even though the evidence with previous viruses is really strong again.
we cant assume symptomatic people are the ones to isolate even though thats been the way for centuries. we have evolved to show symptoms when sick, its our way of surviving as a race. but now thats gone!
we cant assume that masks are only considered of use when worn by the symptomatic – which was the established thinking up until about June 2020.
I mean WOW! either this virus is really re-writing the rulebook or we are seriously over thinking things around here. !!
@Domhnall O’Sullivan: or maybe it’s EXACTLY like every other coronavirus and spreads itself quite happily through our population in spite of whatever precautions you think we’ve been taking “for centuries” except it causes a worse illness. And what on earth makes you think WE evolved to show symptoms for our benefit? Viruses evolved to cause symptoms in order to spread. Virus success as a species is a fine line between enough “symptoms” to spread but not enough to kill the host before this spread has happened. This is a new virus. the balance hasn’t stabilised yet.
@Lorraine Mac Rory:
hi. yes. am all for precautions too. no problem.
and yes. symptoms cause spread i agree. thats my point too !
@Lorraine Mac Rory: Eh, viruses are not a species since they are not alive. And that pesky fact prevents transmission, according to a doctor.
Keep quiet, you could lose your income, have your liberty removed and placed under house arrest.
I’m not a parent, but the links for test centres don’t work for me. Does anyone know how people can get to test centres without a car?
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