TAGGING along for a ‘day in the life’ insight was the original idea for this feature on Ballinasloe-born ISPCA inspector, Karen Lyons. A role reversal from the days we hacked through the Garbally College grounds, Karen bobbing alongside on her pony Rusty.

Court case clashes and then Covid-19 scuppered that plan, instead it’s an hour squared off in her busy diary for a Plan B phone interview.