Trainee thatcher David McFarren from the Donegal Thatching school working on a thatched cottage in Bunbeg, north-west Ireland. — AFP
A NEW school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save the country’s disappearing thatched roofs, an iconic feature of the Irish landscape.
In a hall in Portnoo, students at the Donegal Thatching School clamber over practice roofs under the watchful eye of Brian Lafferty, one of Ireland’s last master thatchers.
