Life seems to be moving faster than ever. We live in a cashless, tap only, face recognition world. More robots, more machines, more online and more click and collect.

Spoilt with technology, we now want everything on demand. Dating, food, bookings, shopping…it’s all at the end of our fingertips or should I say our screens.

However, there are pockets of this country where you can feel like you have gone back in time, where things haven’t changed. There are towns and villages nestled into fjords, valleys and mountain ranges, where small shops have remained within the family that first opened them. There are islands off the west coast where children still have to commute to the mainland each week to go to school. And then there are farmers that work on the same land that they grew up on, taking over from their fathers to keep the farm going.

Some of the farmers in the west of ireland, have never left. Nor have they ever changed the way in which they work the land.

The rural farmers of the west of ireland are unique and they truly are the last of their likes. Future generations won’t have men and women like them.

In 2019, I interviewed 10 different farmers, asking them all about their life growing up and why they never left. We spoke about family, the farms, the things that made them happy and friends loved and lost.

This week's episode of The Nosey Fox Podcast, will tell the story of five different farmers from co. Mayo, in the west of Ireland.

The stories you will hear in this episode are written by me based on interviews I held with each of the farmers.

The first story in this episode, is about John Tiernan of Doughmakeon in County Mayo.

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