[...February first is the day on which husband and wife may decide to walk away from the marriage...
...When you become old your family must provide you with one oatcake a day plus a container of sour milk. They must bathe you every 20th night and wash your head every Saturday. Seventeen sticks of firewood is the allotment for keeping you warm...
No fools, drunks or female scolds are allowed in the doctor's house when a patient is healing there. No bad news to be brought...] emphasis added
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Irelands-Brehon-laws-were-before-their-time-118762389.html
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