Michael Budd – Blacksmith

I had always held a secret desire to be a blacksmith but it never seemed a reality, I mean when have you ever heard a career guidance counsellor suggest to someone “You should be a Blacksmith”? So it wasn’t until moving here to Co. Sligo in the Northwest of Ireland, that I heard of a Blacksmith who needed an apprentice. Although in my early thirties at this point, which I thought was a little old to be an apprentice, I went straight to his forge. Luckily for me, he too had come to the craft at a similar age and so I started right away.