Dairy farmer pitches in to help give beauty salon a hair-raising makeover

From the milking parlour to the beauty parlour may seem a bit of a stretch for most people, but not farmer Maurice Walsh.

He has been switching from herding cattle in Mitchelstown, Co Cork to shepherding a struggling hairdressing salon in Tallaght, Co Dublin, as he fronts a TV programme for RTÉ entitled Farmer In Charge.

The show is set to replace At Your Service, which the Brennan brothers from Kenmare, Co Kerry, have been hosting for the past seven years.