We pay your subsidies, so why run us out?

WHAT has gone wrong in Ireland and where are the welcomes that were so nice when I first visited 15 years ago?

We pay your subsidies, so why run us out?

My husband, friends and I love walking. In the last few years, however, we have had so many bad experiences we’ve decided never to visit again.

The west has been ruined by grazing far too many sheep, paid for by our German money in the form of EU subsidies. Worse, however, is the barbed wire where once there were traditional stone walls, and also there are unpleasant changes in many farming people.

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