The journalist and author on money, what he learned growing up on a farm and why his best ever investment was 12 sheep John Connell credits his farm upbringing for his work ethic. Photo: Frank McGrath John Connell is an author, farmer, journalist, scriptwriter and the co-director of the Granard Booktown Festival. He worked in Australia as an investigative journalist and documentary maker covering everything from the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War to Indigenous Australian human rights before moving home to Co Longford.
His No.1 bestselling memoir, The Cow Book , was published in March 2018, with The Running Book and The Stream Of Everything completing his Longford trilogy. Connell’s latest book, Twelve Sheep: Life Lessons From A Lambing Season , was published in April.
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