Karen Walsh: Why a farmer’s divorce can be more stressful and worrying

In Irish divorce cases,  punishing either party is not the role of the court, says Karen Walsh.

There is a scene in John B Keane’s play ‘The Field’, where the local parish priest is enquiring of the Bull McCabe as to why he is interfering with the sale of the widow’s field.

The Bull replies, ‘It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it.