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We all need money to live but let’s just leave it at that

Country Living with Francis Farragher I remember a pleasant Wednesday morning on the 17th day of August,1977, walk...

Maybe a time to stop flogging the same old dead fuel horse

Country Living with Francis Farragher Will it become a reality over the coming winter month – the price of petrol ...

The strange world of tractor dates, Tinder and awesome Tipp farmers

Country Living with Francis Farragher Are those two an item?” is one of those curious rural expressions inquiring ...

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Maybe a time to let women fill those gaping clergy gaps

Country Living with Francis Farragher We all see it happening on our own doorsteps, and last week as I glanced through this newspaper, and saw a...

The holiday letdown – blame it all on those affluent Romans

Country Living with Francis Farragher It mightn’t feel like holiday season as the rains return almost every second day with unrelenting persiste...

It’s always ‘the other lad’ who has that handy work number

Country Living with Francis Farragher It probably slips into the ‘bad habit’ category but with the passing of time a ‘weakness’ seems to have se...

This world will never be an easy spot for ‘the small man’ to survive

Country Living with Francis Farragher Whatever we have, we always seem to want a bit more. It really is all a matter of scale and expectation. I...

Innocent days when our world was always going to be happy

Country Living with Francis Farragher There’s been a fair bit of reflection and reminiscing over recent weeks as the 60th anniversary of the first...

A poignant journey back to an era of real sporting magic

Country Living with Francis Farragher Life can be a curious mix of riddles. The older we get the more we seem to regress back into childhood. We c...


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