Special Report (Rural Ireland): ‘We would love to be employers, to employ locally and to invest locally’

Given its location and logistical challenges, Tournafulla doesn’t appear naturally conducive to setting up a business, but two local entrepreneurs are bucking that trend in very different ways.

At Ward Waste Products, perched on the top of one of the hills overlooking the village, Peter Ward carries on the business his late father, also Peter, started 50 years ago when he bought a truck and began collecting dead animals from local farmers.

The business has expanded considerably since and operates all over Munster under the Department of Agriculture’s Fallen Animals Scheme, as well as offering other waste and recycling services, employing 33 people from the local area.