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“It’s a small business for now, but I’ve built up a really nice set of customers in Westmeath, Dublin and Longford. They are happy with the product.
“Before I started I had never held a chainsaw so it was very entertaining because I was with a group of guys and I really didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t realise you needed to put chain oil in and I put the chain on backwards once too,” she laughed.
While there aren’t many female chainsaw operators in traditional forestry, Olive has been “pleasantly surprised” at how people have responded, particularly her colleagues in the Westmeath Farm Forestry Group.
21.12.2020
Beat’s Writer’s Wrap-up 2020: Our inquisitive music critics tell us their favourite releases of the year From left to right - Phoebe Bridgers, Perfume Genius and Tame Impala
We spotlight the best releases of the year through the eyes of our writers.
2020… what a disaster. Thank fuck we can say goodbye to the absolute slime ball that’s been the last 12 months and look towards 2021 through a positive lens. Fingers crossed ol’ mate COVID decides to take a backseat and then we’re off to the races with gigs, festivals and events allowed to operate freely enough.
Before we get to 2021, we thought we’d take a look back at the year that was but through the eyes of our wisest investigators – our writers. Spotlighting their top ten albums, top five songs and a few other interesting miscellanea, this is the traditional Beat’s Writer’s Wrap-up but in digital form.