Some field work at last week’s farmers’ rally gave our columnist some new insight into the pressures facing everybody working in agriculture in West Cork. Now if only the weather would play ball ...!
• I’M a horribly impatient person, so usually when I’m stuck behind a tractor for any period of time (generally anything longer than three minutes) I tend to get a bit you know, worked up (we’re talking fierce cursing, epic eye rolling, occasionally some thigh thumping).
Anyway, the other night I was stuck behind not one tractor, but at least 10 (with the odd car interspersed here and there), all headed to the same place – the IFA-organised nitrates derogation rally in Bandon. I was actually going there myself, wearing my reporter’s hat for this newspaper.