I was in Dublin on the day of the recent farmers’ blockade, but nowhere near the protest itself. However, I found myself in strange sympathy with the group of independent farmers who knew that their livelihoods were slipping away from them, and that something had to be done to bring their dilemmas to the forefront of Irish life.
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