Challenging journey to an essential end - Move ring-fences jobs for women

There is a dog-eared story from the long-ago, when John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara were the king and queen of Hollywood, that may not seem as funny today as it did then.

An easy-going farmer, driving a threesome of hungry cows along a Corca Dhuibhne long acre, is stopped by an American tourist in a hired car. “Hi, can you please tell me the way to Ballymygrandfatherspeople?” “Irra, I wouldn’t start from here at all,” comes the Zen-like, unhelpfully opaque response.