His parents expected Kyran O’Grady would be an accountant. Their boy appeared set fair for life in an office when he enrolled on the business studies course in UCD. After all, his father was an accountant with a business which his son was being groomed to take over in due course. But instead of counting other people’s money indoors, Kyran has spent the past four decades in the open air, clambering across roofs.
Read more here:: ‘Thatching is not just a traditional craft but way of roofing which can make a building into a landmark’
