How one farmer reinvented himself after a horrific farm accident

Richard Weldon has become an inventor and entrepreneur five years after losing the power in an arm in a farm accident. Photo: Dylan Vaughan

Claire Mc Cormack

'It happened in the blink of an eye.'

No stranger to machinery, Richard Weldon, didn't think twice about fixing the broken harvester on his farm in Rush, North Dublin, on a cold November morning in 2011.