Rural achiever has to depend on the post rather than internet

One minute, Sean Butler is managing his suckler herd on his north Tipperary farm.

The next he’s getting a phone call asking if he can solve a problem with an irrigation system on a golf course in Africa (the Achimota Golf Course in Accra, capital of Ghana, which has been re-designed by Ryder Cup star Paul McGinley).

Sean, who has 26 suckler cows on a 70-acre hill farm at Silvermines, admits a phone call like this wasn’t in his wildest dreams once. But the 46-year-old has been running a one-man company, Sean Butler Irrigation Ltd, for the past 12 months.