That makes it less painful to pull down a thatched house and build a modern one up with slate or tiled roofs, said Lafferty. ...

At the Donegal Thatching School, master thatchers teach their skills to help preserve Ireland's long tradition of ...

A new school in Donegal is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save Ireland's disappearing thatched roofs ...

That makes it less painful to pull down a thatched house and build a modern one up with slate or tiled roofs, said Lafferty. "It could have taken three years to gather up the stones to build a ...