Special Report (Rural Ireland): Flashes of bright light after decades of gloom in Ballydehob

In day four of our special report on rural Ireland we visit Ballydehob, Co. Cork.

It’s a little known fact that in modern Ireland’s darkest hour, IMF representatives made their way to the village of Ballydehob.

There, in a wood-panelled office in the village outskirts at the height of our most recent recession, the IMF picked the brains of petrogeologist Colin Campbell, a visionary proponent of the Peak Oil theory that global oil production has entered its end stage.