Newgrange’s fields of gold

Former Attorney General John Rogers has found a new career — as a rapeseed oil farmer, writes Margaret Carragher

If YOUR day job had you up to your horsehair wig and gown in convoluted legal briefs you might be forgiven for getting down and dirty in the evening. For Senior Counsel and former Attorney General John Rogers, wellies and waterproofs have been an alternative mode of dress since acquiring his farm at Clewbane on the banks of the River Boyne over 20 years ago.

Since then he has run the place as a viable enterprise, first with a suckler herd, more recently with tillage.