Mick O’Reardon
Did you have an interest in farriery when you started work?
No — it never even entered my head. I was good at metalwork at school and left to be an apprentice blacksmith. At my interview, my boss said he did wrought iron work, some agricultural repairs, and a bit of steel fabrication work. Then he said, “We also do one or two horses — are you interested?” I had to think what did he
