{"id":115468,"date":"2025-10-11T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115468\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:15:09","slug":"i-picked-up-a-chainsaw-with-a-view-of-making-a-living-meet-the-craftsman-who-turned-galway-tree-wreckage-into-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115468\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I picked up a chainsaw with a view of making a living\u2019 \u2013 Meet the craftsman who turned Galway tree wreckage into sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Debris from Storm \u00c9owyn in Barna Woods is being transformed into incredible pieces of art\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chainsaw carver Will Fogarty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/97f12a81-fa6d-4231-a68c-4b3f4c9b3883.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chainsaw carver Will Fogarty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The man behind incredible wooden sculptures in Galway has explained how he pulled beauty from the wreckage wrought by Storm Eowyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Wood carvings that cropped up in Barna Woods have been marvelled at in the past couple of weeks, with the meticulously detailed handiwork springing up in the forest which was badly hit by what was the biggest storm of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Debris from Storm \u00c9owyn in Barna Woods is being transformed into incredible pieces of art Chainsaw carver Will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,7009],"class_list":{"0":"post-115468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jessica-mercer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}