Tumour scare as a child saw Cork farmer turn to 'mindfulness'

He’s earned himself the moniker “The Mindful Farmer” but when Patrick Mulcahy first started practising “mindfulness” it was no more than an eight year-old’s efforts to keep anxiety at bay.

“I was due a big operation. They thought I had a brain tumour. And then there were the challenges of growing up on a small farm.