‘We know exactly where the farms causing the water issues are. What they [the farmers] don’t realise is that we can put a map of the farms, on top of maps of the polluted rivers and we know exactly.”
I ran for the Labour Party in the general election of 2007 and in the local elections of 2009. As an also-ran in both races, I am reminded of the story of a certain Fine Gael TD who, when asked by RTÉ’s Brian Farrell why he thought he lost his seat in the 1977 election replied, “I didn’t get enough feckin’ votes.”