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Draconian measures: Slaughtered sheep at a farm on the Cooley Peninsula in Co Louth in March 2001 Photo: PA
A cull of over 30,000 sheep on the Cooley peninsula was instigated straight away. Any qualms about ethics of euthanising day-old lambs or ewes at the point of lambing were swept aside ‘for the good of the nation’.
Larry Goodman earned a lot of admiration and goodwill when he miraculously turned around a derelict meat factory at Ravensdale into a fully functioning slaughter plant in the space of a long weekend.
It was geopolitical masterstroke to ringfence the disease to Cooley, which allowed the rest of the agri sector continue trading and exporting as normal.