Cormac MacConnell: Paddy is special king of a special place
The farmers amongst you, busily housing stock and rationing fodder for the winter months ahead, will also be interested no doubt in the reality that many of those enthusiastically taking part in what was in effect a coronation had, earlier in the day, driven their cattle out of doors.
Their herds went on to the most barren looking acres in all Ireland, and they will not be providing foodstuffs for them at all at all during the winter months, when many men like my colleague Denis Lehane on page four will be moaning and whinging about the soaring costs involved.
