Darragh visits The Winter Fair in Carrick-on-Shannon. Ella spends the day at Merlin Rock Blanket Bog to see how it is being restored. Stephen goes to Gubbeen Farm in Cork.

This week on Ear to The Ground, the importance of community in rural Ireland; in search of a murmuration of starlings in Westmeath; and a Louth family who are milking their cows over the winter.