The 2025 Irish Aberdeen-Angus Association (IAAA) All Ireland Finals are set to take place on the opening day of the 2025 National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.

The announcement was made at the AGM of the National Ploughing Association (NPA) today (Thursday, May 1), by the NPA managing director Anna May McHugh.

She said: “The NPA is absolutely thrilled to have such a prestigious livestock event coming to the Ploughing this year with upwards of 100 animals expected in this competition alone.

Univet are again onboard as title sponsor and the All-Ireland Champion will secure the prestigious All-Ireland Championship Trophy – an eye-catching piece of silverware dating back to 1902.

The competition is open to all pedigree-registered Aberdeen Angus animals in the Republic of Ireland and the numerous classes, including Junior, Intermediate and Senior Championships, aim to bring together the best of IAAA cattle from the best herds in the country.

Whilst the All Ireland Finals take place on the opening day of the Ploughing, there is a full programme of events planned for 'Ploughing Week' in the Aberdeen Angus Tent including:

National Youth Development Final, where young livestock handlers from a number of age categories will be doing everything from showing, presenting, stock judging, and interviews on Wednesday.
A National Judging Conference, which will incorporate showing, etiquette, and basic-principle talks and classification demonstration addressing the basics of animal physiology, as well as senior judges giving countering arguments on ways they place line-ups of cattle also on Wednesday.
Demonstrations showing qualities of Aberdeen Angus and Classification Demos on Thursday.

Officials from the Irish Aberdeen Angus Association, including breed secretary Shane Murphy and president John Tait, met with members of the NPA recently on the De Cogan Aberdeen Angus Farm in Co. Cork to finalise details of the event programme before the National Ploughing AGM today.

The NPA's exhibition team reported at the AGM that the exhibition arena spaces are "filling up fast as the 'early bird' package is due to expire in the next few days".

According to the NPA: "Stand prices starting for less than €1,000 allows many small companies a huge opportunity to sell, promote and network to hundreds of thousands of potential customers and many international buyers as well."

Ploughing 2025 will take place from September 16-18 in Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.