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A double bill of festivals in April means you won’t be stuck for things to see and do and taste, writes Dee Laffan. Festival season well and truly ignited this month, with the fourth annual Galway Food Festival kicking things off last weekend, next on the calendar, we travel south east to the coastal town of Dungarvan and surrounding countryside for the West Waterford Festival of Food, taking place from Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th April and celebrating eight successive years. The final festival in April takes us back to the capital for the inaugural Dublin Wine Fest from Monday 20th to Sunday 25th April.
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Hard work and passion go hand-in-hand for most small farmers and artisan producers and no truer statement could be made about Mag and Ger Kirwan of the third generation business, Goatsbridge Trout Farm. They are hard working, passionate and always looking at how to ensure that their brand and top quality products are available to as many people as possible.
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Dee Laffan talks to the fourth and fifth generation butchers, McCarthys of Kanturk, about their business - and their hugely popular Pig in a Day courses
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The rumour mill has been in overdrive for the past month that Highbank Farm & Organic Orchards, Co. Killkenny will be distilling a gin in early 2015. The good news is that the highly-aniticipated organic craft gin is being distilled as you read this and will be on the market next month.
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