Sandwiched between tractor trailer-mounted scenes of border checkpoints featuring Irish customs officers, smugglers and US President Donald Trump, passengers on the Lakeland Dairies float threw sweets at the populace assembled outside the co-op’s head office in Killashandra, Co Cavan, during the town’s St Patrick’s Day parade. And good ones at that – Quality Street. The Dealer has not seen such extravagance since the heyday of the boom. Lakeland appears to have cash left in its coffers after gobbling up LacPatrick.
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