The last time protesting farmers brought their sheep to the Department of Agriculture in Dublin they drove them into the lobby, souring relations between the two sides for a decade.
Yesterday sheep farmers arrived again at Kildare Street, but carefully penned their ewes on a bed of straw and never went near the lobby.
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