The Northern Ireland Vintage Ploughing Association (NIVPA) are holding their Annual Ploughing Championships at 20 Ballyknock Road, Hillsborough, Co Down, BT26 6EF on lands kindly granted by Mr George Megarry on Saturday 4th October 2014@ 10.30am This Championship is an important event on the Vintage, Classic & Horse Ploughing calendar, …
The NIVPA regrets the sudden death of Mr Dessie Sherlock, due to an accident on the 15th July. Our condolences to his wife Irene, daughter Wendy and family circle.
The NIVPA annual ploughing match, qualifier for the NIPA championships and European Vintage Ploughing Championships in 2015, will be on Saturday 4th October 2014, venue still to be arranged.
Tommy Anderson, long standing ploughman from Hillsborough Ploughing Society, passed away on Sun 4th may 2014. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Elizabeth, daughters Shirley , Sandra and Susan and his grandchildren and wider family. His 80th birthday with Family & Friends Tommy still loves the ploughing …
Welcome to the all new Northern Ireland Vintage Ploughing Association website. We are always striving to improve and progress, we hope our new website reflects this. We will be continually updating you wth the latest news, result and gallerys from our events, so please bookmark the site and keep up …
Congratulations to Sean Boyle on becoming the 2013 NIVPA Champion!
The office Bearers and Members were saddened to learn of the death of their esteemed and highly respected President Mr Langford (Fordie) Gilliland. Fordie was elected and appointed President of the NIVPA when it was founded and provided much help to the new office bearers. In those early days he …
The Office Bearers and Members of the Association wish to congratulate their highly respected Member Ronnie Coulter on being awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queens Birthday Honours List 2013. Ronnie is a founder Member of the Association and is Past Chairman. He has always taken a very …
Congratulations to the NI team on their success at the EVPC. Mercer Ward was 2nd in the Vintage Reversible Class and Mark Taggart 3rd in the Vintage Trailer Class. Sean Boyle and Dai Kennedy despite valiant efforts in changeable ground conditions were just out of the prizes on this occasion. …
