‘The fishing is over for a lot of us Aran islanders but we still have the land – and we’ve never eaten so healthily’
Fourth-generation Inis Mór fisherman John Conneely was forced out of the sector by post-Brexit regulations so he turned to the land and found that using seaweed as fertiliser produced remarkable results on his free-draining soil
John Conneely on his farm at Mainistir on Inis Mór
Beetroots the size of pumpkins, courgettes as large as water melons — it is not the sort of experience that many Irish vegetable growers had over the rain-sodden last 12 months.
As for the potatoes which John Conneely grew on family ground at Mainistir on the Aran island of Inis Mór, he had only one brief experience of blight.
