Tractor run and threshing festival this weekend
Fun for all the family
THE ANNUAL Newport Tractor and Vintage Car Drive takes place this Sunday, October 6.
Entries from across Limerick, Tipperary and Clare are expected and registration opens at 11.30am at Lee's Mart in Newport.
The annual charity drive finishes at Ahern's Pub, Ballymackeogh, Newport where music will be provided by Live Wire from 5.30pm to 8.30pm.
A display of threshing will also take place at Ahern's Pub throughout the day. Proceeds from the annual tractor and vintage car drive will go to Newport Day Care Centre.
The one-day festival which has been taking place for decades and decades is reminiscent of harvest time on many of the farms in the area half a century ago when the visit of the threshing mill to the farms to thrash the corn was a common practice.
The Ahern family, where the festival now takes place, were involved in the provision of the service in the area for many years and one of the old threshing mills used at that time has been carefully restored and will be in use on Sunday afternoon for the continuation of the festival.
Teresa Ahern, proprietor, always ensures a great day out for all the family and all are welcome to come along on Sunday to take a trip down memory lane to remember and celebrate our collective rural past.