Paper nightmares for 25%

FOR some farmers, exercises like last week’s SPS application rush will always be a nightmare.

For about one person in four in Ireland, even the instructions on the back of a paracetamol box are incomprehensible, according to an international assessment on our literacy skills.

It would be nice to think that farmers are better than that on average, and can understand pages and pages of boring bureaucratic instructions for filling forms as well as any of us.