Talking turkey with free-range farmer

YOU may like ‘em white, but more and more people are opting for a bronze turkey for Christmas — the bird hunted by the Pilgrims in America for their first Thanksgiving dinner and the ancestor of our modern turkey.

About 200 free-range bronze turkeys are being prepared for the Christmas market on the 100-year-old family farm of Brian O’Regan in Kinsale, Co Cork.

It’s still a relatively small market — he’s rearing 1,800 of the traditional white free-range turkeys on the family farm at the same time.