A keen beekeeper, Patrick Healy, developed a business from his hobby when he established this company in the 1970s.
It is now a successful family-run enterprise producing, purchasing and distributing honey, which is widely available from independent s ... more...
Situated just outside Ballina amidst 1,000 acres of woodland and forestry, on the banks of the River Moy, Paul Doran’s castle was the ancestral home of the Earl of Arran and, with a 16th century armoury, big open fires and massive chandeliers amo ... more...
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No ordinary farm - Tom and Patricia Gilbert's farm, near Carrickfergus, was the first in Co Antrim to achieve organic certification from the Soil Association in the early '90s, and then the first in Northern Ireland to have an organic farm outlet - and ... more...
The iconic Hadji Bey’s Turkish Delight was a Cork speciality for many years until production ceased in the 1970s, and was recently revived by Hazelbrook Confectionery of Newbridge, Co Kildare.
This delicious and beautifully packaged product in r ... more...
Pat O'Neill's dry cured bacon is widely sought after in the South-East and no wonder. This excellent product uses only Irish pork and is cured by hand for three weeks "using our unique family recipe with natural sea salt".
Nevertheless, the ... more...
Originating from Piedmont in Northern Italy, Piedmontese cattle have been reared in Ireland since the 1980s and their meat is now available on the domestic market.
Being naturally low in cholesterol, lean and tender, Piedmontese beef is rapidly growin ... more...
Small scale farm production is both a strength and weakness in Irish agriculture and, whatever its advantages, it has certainly made it particularly difficult for organic producers to compete efficiently with conventional farmers.
In 1989 Josef Finke, ... more...
Easy to spot by the queue forming out into the street, and still in the McCartney family after nearly one and a half centuries, this flower-decked shop in the pretty village of Moira is one of the oldest and best-loved butchery businesses in Northern I ... more...
Founded in 1995, Mac’s Armagh Cider is the focal point of the Armagh ‘revivalist’ cider movement. Only traditional cider techniques are used – no dyes, no preservatives. Local fruit is crushed, fermented, racked, matured, blende ... more...
When Michael Finegan returned from four years managing dairy farms in New Zealand to take over the family farm in 2005, he wasted no time in developing a new focus for the 260 acre farm near Slane, which was a mixture of tillage, drystock and dairy goa ... more...
A selective companion guide to our famous broad-based online collection, the ‘glovebox bible’ includes a uniquely diverse range of Ireland's greatest places to ...