‘I have touched positively every home of every parish’
By a blazing log fire inside it was, by comparison, a hive of activity with a small huddle of astute observers of life, in peaked caps and well-worn anoraks, holding court at the counter on what they insisted was a deserved early lunch break from the regular Tuesday sheep sale at Miltown Mart.
Chuffed to accept their local TD’s generous offer of a tipple, the mood was light and the banter was lively as they swung their stools around to engage with the man from Caherciveen.