Livestock monitor: Bumper harvest saves the bacon but store cattle are back €50 a head due to weather

There were many losses in the political field over the weekend.

For me, the greatest loss of all came with the departure of Councillor Mooney from Ballymagash.

The manic Councillor Parnell Mooney, who was played with such brilliance by the late Frank Kelly, who sadly passed away on Sunday, was one of the reasons why I eagerly stayed up as a youngster to watch Hall’s Pictorial Weekly.