Previous Features

We take a look back at the winners from our last Award show. Entries are now open for this year’s Awards which takes place on Saturday March 21st 2020 at Lyrath Estate, Kilkenny. Click here to enter and for more information on this year’s awards.  

Dara Boyle visits Hilltop Quarries on site and takes a look at the most recent additions to their fleet. Hilltop Quarries Ltd was founded in 2005, and now provides a contract crushing, screening and rock breaking service around the country, having recently carried out work as far from home as …

The plant industry has been male dominated since the digger was first invented. Slowly  but surely more and more women have been coming into the business and this is to be  warmly welcomed. To see how one lady expertly works the levers was Darren Scully When I was a young …

One of the biggest suppliers of plant on the M7 upgrade works is Flannery Plant Hire. Dara Boyle visits the roadworks in Kildare and sees the Flannery fleet at work. If you have driven along the Kildare section of the M7 motorway since January 2018, you’ll have seen the upgrade …

A new year and a new machine. Harrington Concrete and Quarries have just purchased a brand-new Caterpillar 980M wheel loader. It is currently hard at work in their Ballisodare quarry. To check out the latest addition to their litter, Darren Scully paid them a visit. They say that Brexit could …

The Construction & Quarry Machinery Show took place in Punchestown racecourse on the 21st and 22nd of June. The sun shone and the machines looked magnificent. Darren Scully takes an overall view of the show and what the future holds. I am wearing two hats as I write this article. …