Eoin Reardon: 'I left a commerce degree in UCC to work with wood and I've never been happier'

24-year-old dropped out of college to follow his passion for carving and now has 1.6m subscribers on Youtube and 600,000 on Instagram who watch him work, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

Eoin Reardon: “I think there’s something within the human animal that likes working with their hands to shape a material. I find it incredibly rewarding to step back and look at something that I’ve made." Picture: Larry Cummins

Eoin Reardon loves timber. His millions of social-media followers watch him carve the most extraordinary items, from simple spatulas and garden rakes to epic currachs and even guillotines.

“That was for a residency at Bunratty Castle,” says the 24-year-old. “Myself and a blacksmith, James O’Connor, spent the best part of five months working there together last year and we were asked to build a guillotine.