Eunice Power’s fine house in Dungarvan had a well-earned reputation as one of the area's best B&Bs, but Eunice is an enthusiastic professional cook and has also run a successful outside catering company since 2001 - and this, together with t ... more...
Mash Direct started out like many Irish food businesses: in a home kitchen. Martin and Tracy Hamilton, fifth-generation farmers, were looking for ways to add value to the crops they grew.
Tracy started making champ and selling it at a local market and ... more...
Very much with the zeitgeist for wild and foraged foods, Lucy Deegan and Mark Cribbin’s enterprising north Cork company not only grows a unique range of speciality mushrooms - comprising everything from shiitake and oyster mushrooms to velvet pip ... more...
Faced with an abundance of fruit and vegetables from her walled garden, Veronica Molloy’s mother-in-law taught her how to make preserves. To this day, any new products are still based on those basic family recipes handed down through the generati ... more...
This boutique coffee roasters was set up here in 2008 by the highly experienced and coffee-educated Australian Brock Lewin who relocated to Co Cork with his wife who is from Fermoy.
Although they now have retail outlets in Galway and Dublin, their unu ... more...
Carrigbyrne Cheese is one of the earliest and most enduring success stories of the renaissance of artisan cheese making in Ireland and one of the few pioneers outside of the West Cork area.
The main product, Carrigbyrne St Killian, is one of Ireland&r ... more...
Colm Healy's high quality chocolate operation is in a remote location at St Finian's Bay on the Ring of Kerry, overlooking the mystical Skellig islands. Yet, thanks to its unique appeal, it - together with Noelle Campbell-Sharp's wonderful Cill Rialaig ... more...
Not your average sheep farmer, Michael Keegan is one of a new breed of resourceful young farmers who are determined to find viable ways to stay on the land. Michael and his wife Hannah have developed an interesting combination of enterprises - includin ... more...
An early convert to the real bread movement, Joe Fitzmaurice began baking commercially for the family business, Blazing Salads, in 2000 and he developed a range of naturally leavened and yeasted organic artisan breads.
Their success soon led to him se ... more...
Former Dublin food truck supremos Dee Kelly and Matteo Grescti moved their popular business to permanent premises in Fethard on Sea just as the pandemic was beginning to bite - but, despite the challenges, they have not only survived but thrived.
From ... more...