Interesting post from Seamus Coffey on the Irish CAP figures (published top 100 here recently).
Natural curiosity brought me to examine the figures from my home parish.
Here I saw that there were 150 recipients in the parish who received an average payout of €12,142, slightly below the national average. The total monies received by residents of the parish under the scheme was €1,821,339. It’s like the parish wins a lotto jackpot every year – guaranteed!
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According to the 2006 Census data there were 26 males and 5 females with recorded occupations of ‘Farming, Fishing and Forestry Managers’ in the Cappamore DED. There were also three males and one female recorded as ‘Other Agricultural Workers’. This would suggest there is a maximum of 35 people employed as farmers in the Cappamore DED. The parish of Cappamore had 150 recipients (131 males and 19 females) under the CAP scheme.
A blog worth reading, that’un.