There is nothing quite as pleasing as watching hay being made the old-fashioned way.

With GAA fixtures cancelled due to COVID-19, Kerry GAA fanatic Ger McCathy decided he was going to call on his neighbours to partake in traditional hay making on bank holiday Sunday.

Speaking to the Irish Farmers Journal, suckler farmer Ger told us how the idea came about.

"It all happened out of the accident to be honest,"he said. "I cut the hay last Friday. We are very exposed to the sunshine here and we are very high up. We tedded it out Saturday and Saturday night we decided we would go turning it with a pike just for a bit of craic.

"For the times that we are in it, we had nothing to do for the bank holiday Sunday. A couple of neighbours came in helped out. My mother who was born on the farm attended as well, she is 92-years-old."

Eghty-five-year-old Jimmy Trant and 92-year-old Mary McCarthy enjoying the hay making.

Ger explained that it was great to show the younger people from the Parish how they used to do things in times gone by.

"The one thing that I was more interested in doing was showing the younger generation how we used to do it back in the day," says Ger.

"We had a bit of a laugh and a bit of craic which took our minds away from the times we are in at the moment."

Gerry Lenihan demonstrating how to save hay the old fashioned way.

"If the weather suits we always do hay and from time to time we turn it with pikes.

"The field we turned was about two acres. We made a few wines but I had to knock them again for the baler to come in and bale. We got some fantastic round bales from the field," Ger explained.

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