UP TO the middle of the last century, Irish schoolchildren would have understood that Ireland had no natural resources outside of farming, other than tiny and low-grade coal outcrops in Castlecomer and Arigna and a bit of copper in Avoca. The picture has since changed significantly thanks to Pat Hughes’s huge zinc discovery at Tara… Read more »
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