85-year-old sheep farmer Mary O’Sullivan has plenty of mountains still to climb

Earlier this year, an 85-year-old sheep farmer was in court for allegedly allowing her sheep to wander under an 1851 law. What happened next? Noel Baker found out.

God knows exactly how old the mountains on the Beara peninsula are, but they’re still fresh enough to display the fingerprints of the glaciers that made them, all angled fractures and latticed stone, each jutting rock face a snowless crevasse.