That makes it less painful to pull down a thatched house and build a modern one up with slate or tiled roofs, said Mr Lafferty. Master thatcher John Lafferty says his expertise was passed down to ...

That makes it less painful to pull down a thatched house and build a modern one up with slate or tiled roofs, said Lafferty. "It could have taken three years to gather up the stones to build a ...

But he lamented that younger people don't have his "deep well of lived experience to draw from". That makes it less painful to pull down a thatched house and build a modern one up with slate or tiled ...

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 ...