My life with Eoin Reardon: I built a currach during covid using only hand tools

The Cork craftsman built his first currach during lockdown and is now inspiring a new generation to embrace traditional skills

TikTok woodworker and content creator, Eoin Reardon, who has been named as this year's National Heritage Week Ambassador.

In hindsight, I probably should have kept away given the condition of the seas that day. But after much hard graft, the currach I had devoted months to constructing was finally complete and I was determined to try it out.

Willing something into existence with your hands and watching it function in the real world is an amazing feeling. Lo and behold, she floated.