Saturday sees the FarmAid concert take place for the 34th consecutive year.

It does so against the backdrop of hurricane Florence, a more destructive cousin of our own storm Ali, and in an economic climate described by John Mellencamp as worse than the 1980s when a quarter of family farms in the US were wiped out.

Tune in online, and let’s hope the weather is better in Hartford Connecticut than it has been in Tullamore.