Jodo - bog trotter29 Mar 2022 10:50
Typical Irish chauvinist and obviously a lonely old bachelor now that your "nephew" is running the farm. Probably a retired priest since you obviously left the farm after the age of 25.
"My father"..."7 of 8 children".... Did you not have a mother or was she totally incidental other than popping out children?
And if I want to write a "political diatribe" I will not be lectured to by a bog trotter.
While I came from a farming background on both sides of my family I fortunately left it early and spent my life earning a lot of money in the computer industry rather than bursting my proverbials cutting turf, thinning carrots, making hay, milking cows which i did regularly when I spent my summer holidays on their farms and came to know the issues that affected farmers back then and continues to do so now and was aware that farming in Ireland, in the main, is a lost cause.
And if those gobsh***tes who sit in Dail Eireann and think the farmers are going to take their preaching that they should all get bikes, stop burning fossil fuels and freeze to death and commit suicide when they cannot make ends meet you are very mistaken.
How do you heat your house at the moment? I hope you have a windmill, solar panels and a heat exchange unit but I bet you don't which makes you a hypocrite.
And, by the way, I know the ox mountains because I have relatives that live in Achill Sound, which is not too far from where you obviously heat your rear end at others expense.