On a grey, showery day, people from all walks of life came from across the country to the wake at Ard a’ Bhothair, about 2km from Ventry, in the Dingle Peninsula.

The future of the Killarney red deer is under threat from inbreeding and mating with other species and there is a need for a new management plan, a researcher has claimed.

IT WAS October, 1964 when Charles Haughey, one of a new breed of mohair-suited and suave politicians, moved to the Department of Agriculture, with a reputation of having been a reforming Minister for Justice.