Ancient law cited in trust’s farm protest

Placards citing ancient Brehon Laws were at the vangard of a sizeable protest by a mysterious trust that ousted receivers at a Kildare stud farm.

More than 250 people marched across the land of Eugene McDermott on Saturday afternoon and used an angle grinder to break the locked gates.

There were brief scuffles with security guards stationed at the farm who were acting for IBRC, after it took back the farm on Friday.

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