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Sat 03 Mar 2007back to businessLast November, Independent TD Mildred Fox announced that she was retiring from politics to devote more time to her three young children, but when her former colleagues hit the campaign trail in the forthcoming general election, she won't be sitting at home with her feet up.Swapping politics for business, she has established an ice-cream manufacturing company with her brother, Christy, using milk and cream from the dairy herd on his family farm in Wicklow.