Watch: early risers - Tipp family first to the Ploughing again

Having featured on 'First to the Ploughing' last year, the O'Sullivan family from Nenagh, Co Tipperary, were first through the gates once again for Ploughing 2018.

Barry Cassidy

18 September 2018

Watch: early risers - Tipp family first to the Ploughing again

At the front of the queue of sleepy and excited faces for Ploughing 2018 in Screggan, Tullamore were the familar faces of the O'Sullivan family from Co Tipperary.

Last year the family were first through the gates too and news correspondant Hannah Quinn Mulligan spoke to the early risers about their annual pilgrimage to the Ploughing.

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