If Kerry milk suppliers manage to dodge the Revenue tax demand on their patronage shares, they’ll have to say a big raibh maith agat to their chair Mundy Hayes.

Returns to the lobbying register reveal he briefed Kerry TDs at Farranfore at the start of 2017, putting the pressure on John Brassil, Brendan Griffin, Danny and Michael Healy-Rae and Martin Ferris.

Over the summer months he kept in touch with the five TDs by email and phone. His campaign then stepped up a gear in late summer when he held a meeting with Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed in Beaufort. Some weeks later he met with Fianna Fáil finance spokesman Michael McGrath in the Brehon Hotel in Killarney.

All of the above lobbying was to get a “change of policy by Revenue Commissioners in relation to tax treatment of Kerry Co-op patronage shares”.