Built in the 1770s by Wills Hill (Ireland’s largest landowner, first Marquess of Downshire and Secretary of the American Colonies), Hillsborough Castle is a splendid late Georgian ‘Big House’ with a fascinating history. Today it is ... more...
The Abbeyleix area is the source of many good things these days - and G’s Gourmet Jams is one of the original products, and one of the best.
Making a good old-fashioned product with natural flavour is the main selling point for Helen Gee’s ... more...
Deirdre McConvey's chic basement café beside O’Brien’s Sandwich Bar on Belfast’s Chichester Street is a real hidden gem.
It’s a small shop with just two tables for customers to sit and have hot chocolate or Suki Tea, wit ... more...
David McEvoy sells carefully reared and aged meats and is especially know for his free range poultry - both chickens and the organic free range bronze turkeys reared for Christmas.
Also stocks other products, including Sowans organic bread mixes. C ... more...
Mac Ivors is a handcrafted cider made from apples grown on a family orchard in the Orchard County.
Using only the best apples from the orchards, Greg MacNeice set to work and, after many trial blends, he created two distinct and perfectly balanced cid ... more...
Aka Wicklow Fine Foods, Jim and Mary Healy's innovative family-run business re-located from Baltinglass in Co Wicklow to customised new premises alongside Rathwood Home and Garden World (www.rathwood.com) and Rath woodlands (where there are recreationa ... more...
Located on the banks of the River Boyne in the historic town of Trim, Co Meath, it’s not surprising that Brú Brewery is inspired by Irish heritage and mythology.
Founders Dáire Harlin and Paddy Hurley also take a lot of pride in su ... more...
Made on the Burgess family’s farm in the Wicklow hills, near Tullow on the border of counties Wicklow and Carlow, Coolattin is one of only a few authentic cheddar style Irish farm cheeses.
Tom Burgess sums up all that is best about a wonderful c ... more...
Hand crafted using the traditional methods honed in the kitchens of her family home, Inch House near Thurles, Mairin Byrne now makes her Inch House Traditional Black Pudding in a modern production unit in Templemore. But it is still the same product, b ... more...
On a slip road at the top of the main street, just off the busy thoroughfare, siblings Elaine and JD Spearman's bakery and tea room is a charming old-style place to take a break for a bite to eat and 'freshly ground coffee or a grand cup of tea'.
It h ... more...
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