Voters weigh up historic moment

IT was a painstaking exercise in democracy that would have done justice to any electoral system.

More than 4,000 farmers with shares in Glanbia Co-Operative Society Ltd travelled to the Teagasc Kildalton College in Piltown, Co Kilkenny, to vote on a €343 million deal to buy back the Irish business of the group.

A full 1,000 of them came in a fleet of buses and the others in their own cars and four-wheel drives from other parts of the country.