Racing world has a lesson for fiscal policy

Most citizens of Ireland are lucky, in that other than those living in Dublin, the size of their towns or cities does not deprive them of access to the countryside, or its way of life.

Four or five years ago, a primary school teacher in Dublin was holding a general knowledge question-time, when he asked: ‘where do we get our milk from?

A little boy raised his hand, and replied to the teacher’s nod, ‘out of a bottle, sir’. It was quite probable that the only time this little boy had seen a cow was hanging up in a butcher’s shop as a beef carcass. Country life allows people to become familiar with animals and to work with them.