Group ploughs through the dark

Shop assistant Susan Cahalane has never driven a tractor in her life.

But she’s happy to get up in the early hours of the morning to plough a field for the first time — in the dark.

The 23-year-old, a co-founder of a new branch of Macra na Feirme, is helping to organise a round-the-clock ploughing marathon for charity in West Cork later this month.