{"id":330711,"date":"2026-03-05T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330711\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:57:10","slug":"meet-the-13-year-old-wicklow-boy-who-is-turning-local-wood-into-pocket-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330711\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 13-year-old Wicklow boy who is turning local wood into pocket money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thirteen-year-old Wicklow woodturner Adam Clancy of 'Adam's Windfall Crafts'.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d854a0c2-55dd-438d-a87c-a81ff478cc18.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)\">Thirteen-year-old Wicklow woodturner Adam Clancy of &#8216;Adam&#8217;s Windfall Crafts&#8217;.<\/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)\">While social media, YouTube or a gaming console might be the first port of call after a long day at school for most 13-year-olds, when first-year Wicklow student Adam Clancy drops his bag at the front door, it\u2019s straight off to his father\u2019s workshop, where he turns locally-sourced ash, beech and oak into rolling pins, cake stands and all manner of functional homeware.<\/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)\">Hailing from the foothills of Lugnaquilla, where he lives with his mother Keara, dad Kieran, and older sister Ally, Col\u00e1iste Eoin Hacketstown pupil Adam began his crafting journey sculpting decorative seasonal logs for Christmas fairs to make a few extra bob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirteen-year-old Wicklow woodturner Adam Clancy of &#8216;Adam&#8217;s Windfall Crafts&#8217;. While social media, YouTube or a gaming console might&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,5718,61,60],"class_list":["post-330711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-eoin-mac-raghnaill","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}