{"id":651735,"date":"2026-08-23T04:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/651735\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:50:20","slug":"farmer-passing-through-kerry-on-vintage-tractor-journey-in-aid-of-suicide-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/651735\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer passing through Kerry on vintage tractor journey in aid of suicide prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer has been driving in Kerry on a tractor his grandfather drove when he won the World Ploughing Championships in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Wicklow farmer Michael Keegan has been travelling in the county yesterday and today as part of 700km journey from Mizen to Malin Head to raise funds for suicide prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Keegan is driving his grandfather Charlie\u2019s vintage D4OL tractor \u2013 the very one that his grandfather drove when he won the World Ploughing Championship for Ireland over 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s joined by classic tractor enthusiast Tony Killarney, who will drive a 1971 Chevy pick-up as a support vehicle along the route.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Keegan is raising funds in aid of suicide prevention charities 3TS &amp; Pieta.<\/p>\n<p>He details his\u00a0travels across Kerry and explains the motivation behind his journey along the length of Ireland:<\/p>\n<p>You can follow along with <a href=\"https:\/\/milesofhope.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael&#8217;s journey <\/a>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idonate.ie\/fundraiser\/michaelkeeganmoh26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">donate to the fundraiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re affected by issues raised, you can contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritans.org\/ireland\/samaritans-ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samaritans<\/a> any time at 116 123 or Pieta 24\/7\u00a0at freephone 1800 247 247<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A farmer has been driving in Kerry on a tractor his grandfather drove when he won the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,92190],"class_list":["post-651735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tractor"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117143026226085370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}