Aisling Meehan
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They're the mothers that have kids emigrating.
And that, you know, kids that are working full time off farm and then also trying to keep the farm going.
So I suppose just coming back, like the different organisations, I mean, you have MACRA that are representing young farmers.
You have the IFA, ICMSA, various different organisations.
But like quite apart from that, like it was you farmers, but you've hauled yours.
You've like it was a lot of the business people and they're male and female.
And I wouldn't really make a distinction, being honest with you.
I think it was widespread and across all age groups as well.
you would see it on the ground and the people that were just really fed up.
And then the other thing I just want to add is like I happen to be listening back to this newspaper panel during the week.
And, you know, and the fear that was there amongst like what's going to happen and, you know, the whole country is locked down and where is it going to be?
And within 12 hours, everything had dissipated.
And I think that needs to be acknowledged, you know, about the, you know, even you mentioned fines there.
They decided themselves that morning that they were going to dissipate and because they felt that they were being listened to and that they had met their point.