Another nail in the coffin of rural Ireland
Proposals to include farmland in a means test for college grants could divide the coalition and further expose urban indifference to the destruction of rural Ireland, writes Tom McGurk.
It looks like we are about to add another chapter to one of the great Irish political myths: the one about how Ireland's devious farming community always manages to escape the taxation net and gets easy handouts from the state and Brussels.
The latest incident in this long-running townies v culchies saga, the prospect of forcing farm families to include their land as an asset when calculating third level grants for their children ...
