National Ploughing Championships 2026 – Red Stretch Tent for Red Raven Renewables
The Stretch Tents Ireland team has been preparing for one of the biggest events in the Irish calendar – the National Ploughing Championships 2026 in Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.
For this year's event, we installed a distinctive 5x7.5m red stretch tent for Red Raven Renewables, creating their exhibition and hospitality stand for the three-day event.
The installation included full walls and flooring, creating a complete covered space where the Red Raven Renewables team can meet visitors, showcase their business and stand out amongst the thousands of exhibitors and visitors attending the National Ploughing Championships.
The strong red stretch fabric was also a perfect choice for creating a highly visible stand in such a busy exhibition environment.
Creating a Stand That Gets Noticed
The National Ploughing Championships is unlike an ordinary outdoor event.
With huge numbers of visitors and businesses competing for attention across the site, exhibition stands need to be both practical and visually distinctive.
For Red Raven Renewables, our 5x7.5m red stretch tent provides exactly that.
The sweeping stretch-tent profile immediately creates something different from a conventional exhibition marquee, while the bold red fabric helps the stand attract attention across a busy event site.
It's a great example of how the structure itself can become part of a company's event presence.
A Complete Exhibition Space for Red Raven Renewables
For this installation, we weren't simply providing overhead cover.
The Red Raven Renewables stand includes:
5x7.5m red stretch tent
Full wall system
Flooring
Professional installation
Enclosed exhibition space
Weather protection for staff and visitors
Combining the stretch tent with walls and flooring transforms a relatively compact footprint into a professional temporary business space.
It gives the Red Raven Renewables team a dedicated area for meeting potential customers and talking about their renewable energy services while remaining part of the atmosphere of the National Ploughing Championships.
Stretch Tents for Exhibitors & Businesses
Projects like this demonstrate another side of stretch tent hire.
Stretch tents have become extremely popular for weddings, festivals and hospitality, but they can also provide an eye-catching alternative for businesses exhibiting at major outdoor events.
They can be configured for:
Exhibition stands
Agricultural shows
Corporate hospitality
Trade events
Product launches
Brand activations
Promotional spaces
Outdoor showrooms
Food and drink stands
VIP hospitality
Different tent colours, wall configurations, flooring and lighting can then be used to create a structure suited to the individual business or brand.
Full Walls for the Irish Weather
Weather protection is particularly important at a multi-day outdoor event like the National Ploughing Championships.
Our wall systems allow a stretch tent to provide considerably more protection when required.
For the Red Raven Renewables installation, full walls create an enclosed exhibition area, protecting the interior of the stand while giving the business a defined space for welcoming visitors.
Depending on the project, we can provide different wall configurations to balance weather protection, visibility and access.
This flexibility means stretch tents can remain visually distinctive while still providing the practical protection expected from a professional event structure.
Flooring Completes the Stand
Flooring is another important element of this installation.
At a major agricultural event, ground conditions can change significantly over several days, particularly with very high levels of footfall.
Providing a dedicated floor gives the Red Raven Renewables stand a cleaner and more professional environment for staff, displays and visitors.
It also helps turn the tent from a simple outdoor shelter into a clearly defined exhibition space.
We provide flooring alongside stretch tent installations for corporate events, festivals, exhibitions, weddings and hospitality projects throughout Ireland.
Why Red Works So Well for This Installation
One of our favourite aspects of this particular project is the colour.
The red stretch tent creates an instantly recognisable structure amongst a large exhibition site.
While our white and sand tents are extremely popular for weddings and hospitality, coloured stretch tents offer another opportunity for businesses and brands wanting to create something more distinctive.
Our stretch tent range includes white opaque, sand/beige, red, orange and black, allowing us to match very different event styles and environments.
For a busy national event like the Ploughing Championships, the red 5x7.5m structure makes a serious visual impact despite its relatively compact footprint.
From Corporate Stands to Major Festival Structures
The Red Raven Renewables installation also demonstrates the versatility of the stretch tent system.
Our team works on projects ranging from individual exhibition stands to major multi-tent festival installations.
Recent projects have included work for:
Kaleidoscope Festival
Beyond The Pale
Open Ear Festival
Blackwater Valley Opera
Cork on a Fork Fest
Carlow Arts Festival
Live in the Marquee
National Ploughing Championships
Every project presents a different challenge.
The structure required for a corporate exhibitor at the Ploughing Championships is completely different from a large festival bar or a 200-person wedding – and that's exactly where the flexibility of stretch tents comes into its own.
Corporate Stretch Tent Hire Across Ireland
Although we're based in West Cork, Stretch Tents Ireland works nationwide.
Our team installs structures for businesses, brands, festivals and venues throughout Cork, Kerry, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Wicklow, Meath, Offaly and across Ireland.
For corporate clients, stretch tents can provide temporary structures for:
Exhibitions
Staff events
Hospitality areas
Product launches
Promotional events
Customer experiences
Brand activations
Outdoor conferences
Corporate celebrations
We can also incorporate flooring, walls, lighting and sound equipment depending on the requirements of the event.
Hiring or Buying a Stretch Tent for Your Business
For a one-off exhibition or event, hiring normally provides the simplest solution.
For businesses, venues and event companies that regularly require covered outdoor space, purchasing a stretch tent can also be worth considering.
As an official QTents partner in Ireland, Stretch Tents Ireland supplies new stretch tents in a wide range of sizes, colours and configurations.
We can help with the structure itself as well as poles, walls, flooring, fixings and installation requirements.
Planning an Exhibition, Corporate Event or Brand Activation?
If you're exhibiting at an outdoor show or planning a corporate event, your structure is one of the first things visitors see.
A stretch tent can provide both the practical weather protection required for an Irish outdoor event and a distinctive structure that helps your business stand out.
Our services include:
Stretch tent hire
Coloured stretch tents
Exhibition structures
Corporate event tents
Full wall systems
Clear walls
Flooring
Festoon and event lighting
Sound equipment
Stretch tent sales
Nationwide professional installation
From compact branded exhibition stands to some of Ireland's largest festival structures, we can design an installation around your event.
Red Raven Renewables at the National Ploughing Championships 2026
We're delighted to have our red Stretch Tents Ireland structure providing the Red Raven Renewables stand at the 2026 National Ploughing Championships.
The combination of the 5x7.5m red stretch tent, full walls and flooring creates a compact but highly visible exhibition space ready for one of Ireland's biggest annual events.
It's also another great demonstration of what can be achieved with stretch tents.
From corporate exhibition stands to weddings, hospitality installations and huge festival structures, the system can be adapted around completely different locations and requirements.
If you're planning an exhibition, agricultural show, corporate event, festival or brand activation anywhere in Ireland, talk to our team about what's possible.
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