Dog handler and legend Pat MacGettigan

This Irishman based in Culrain was one of the most successful dog handlers in Scotland and quite a character.

 

Born in Donegal in 1929, he came to the Highlands as a teenager to work in Hydro Electric schemes such as the 5-mile tunnel in Lairg. He began to work as a sheperd in Glen Cassley in 1961 and soon afterwards he won his first sheepdog event at. . .