Farmers and a Flood Warden meet in Newry

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Farmers and a Flood Warden meet in Newry

Ben McArthur NORM Drew did not come as a farmer, but to everyone else, it sure seemed like he had. He looked like one, sounded like one and even listened like one. Something about his sun-scorched face suggested he had endured last year’s ruthless weather patterns with significant loss. He had the same hard self-sufficiency of a calf rearer or the cattle musterer, a peculiar dignity of an old man who had seen it all. Coming from Cowwarr, Norm en…