Going with the grain: meet the Cork woodworker with 430k followers on TikTok

Corkman Eoin Reardon - aka CaptainBusyBollocks - tells the unvarnished truth about his social media success and the joy of working with his hands

Eoin Reardon, aka CaptainBusyBollocks: axe him no questions, and he'll tell you no lies. 

Lockdown and the resultant slowdown of the pace of life opened up new opportunities for many of us to find new hobbies, pastimes and consuming passions.

For Innishannon man and UCC commerce student Eoin Reardon, that new pursuit was woodworking - a bit of a left turn for a man who never studied woodwork in school, but an opportunity to garner appreciation for working with his hands.