Former Green TD goes back to her roots

Hard times can hit those turfed out of the Dáil but one former TD does not want sympathy when she’s spotted foraging for food.

For while other politicians may have a fondness for fine dining, Mary White loves nothing more than a feast of fungi, leaves, berries, and nuts freshly plucked from fields and hedgerows.

Now she is urging others to learn the knack of harvesting nature’s abundance in a landscape of austerity by holding foraging workshops at her rural Co Carlow home.