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THE WOMAN had rung the radio show from Cappoquin. There was gloom in west Waterford with the proposed liquidation of the local chicken processing plant, but the lady on the line was having none of it.

IN a week when one Cork city councillor came up with the interesting but much-too-late-in-the-day proposal that the European City of Culture should stage this year’s All-Ireland hurling final...