Documentary showcases the art of turf-cutting

THEIR last film, about old Irish telephone boxes, won a string of international awards — now two Dublin-based film-makers are making a movie about Kerry turf-cutters.

Aideen O’Sullivan from Dingle and Ross Whitaker from Dublin have spent days filming a group of old-style turf-cutters on Killarda bog between Listowel and Ballyduff in north Kerry.

The work is expected to finish at the end of the month and the film, being produced with the support of the Irish Film Board under its Reality Bites scheme, will premiere at the Cork International Film Festival in November.