Around the Districts: Aughrim to Knockananna
AUGHRIM
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With elections — local, European, national and presidential — fast coming up in the next 18 months, a relatively small, but more emboldened far-right has made immigration and asylum a dominant issue in Ireland, writes Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe
Online posts by such groups, which urge pressure to be applied to both individual workers and companies, have risen sharply in recent weeks…
In the countryside above Aughrim lies the townland of Kilpipe, home of one of the sharpest minds in Wicklow agriculture. Tom Byrne is a rogue, an agitator, a home-spun character and a wit. He is also a serious thinker about all matters rural and about how farming ties in with the wider world. An hour in his lively company is sure to give visitors a slew of ideas to ponder on, along with the feeling that they have been entertained as well as enlightened.
Online posts by such groups, which urge pressure to be applied to both individual workers and companies, have risen sharply in recent weeks, but one travel company has been the victim of such posts for more than a year.