Plan for change in the dairy quota system

By Brian O’Mahony

Tánaiste Mary Harney and the Minister for Agriculture, Joe Walsh, saw to it that David Dilger, the Greencore boss, made his peace with the beet growers.

That meeting was held the day the Tánaiste got herself tied up in a different kind of knot, but the point is that she found time on the most important day of her life to resolve a festering issue, because it was politically sensitive.