“WE HAD to destroy the village in order to save it”. This quote was famously attributed to a US commander during the Vietnam war in explaining their scorched earth approach to ‘liberating’ villages. This came to mind with the comments in February from the Irish Farmers Association hill farming chair Cáillin Conneely in pleading with… Read more »
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