Eddie Downey, chairman of Fine Gael’s agriculture and rural affairs committee, walks through his farmyard in Slane and points out the Knowth passage grave, the hill of Slane where St Patrick lit the paschal fire and the location of the Battle of the Boyne. “You can tell the history of the country standing here,” he says.
There are thirty or forty people here surrounded by corrugated iron and fields. They’re from Monaghan, Cavan, Louth and Meath. Everyone who isn’t a politician, politician’s aide or a journalist is a Fine Gael-supporting farmer
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