The Cooley mountains make an impressive backdrop to Hannah Byrne’s unusual café and retail operation at Strandfield House, just outside Dundalk. The driveway leading up to the house arrives into a farmyard that’s choc-a-bloc with col ... more...
Dating back to the mid 1950s, O'Crualaoí’s Family Butchers was established here by Kevin O'Crualaoí and is now managed by his son, Micheál O'Crualaoí.
These Associated Craft Butchers of Ireland members are import ... 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...
Established in 1966 by Tadgh O'Meara, Kish Fish is currently under the stewardship of his three sons Bill, Tadgh and Damien, ably assisted by their mother Fedelma, who looks after the shop with Jimmy Smith - attached to the processing plant, it offers ... more...
Inspired by Oscar Wilde's most famous quote 'I can resist anything but temptation', Patricia Farrell's business is well and truly artisan. They are members of A Taste of Lough Derg and the chocolates are made, decorated and packaged by hand in E ... more...
“Apple juice is only as good as the apple”, so say David and Julia Keane, and they should know as they have been producing natural cold-pressed apple juice here to great acclaim since 1992.
Julia manages the business while David mana ... more...
Operating their famous stall at the Temple Bar Food Market since 1997 and certified organic since 1998, the McNally Family Farm is one of Ireland’s most celebrated growers. It’s a name that top chefs are proud to credit on their menus and t ... more...
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Tony Garahy is a fourth generation farmer at this mixed organic farm, and is renowned for the successful organic box scheme he has operated in West Offaly and North Tipperary since 1997.
He has over 200 regular customers in the scheme, which supplies ... 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...
Frank Kavanagh and Peter Sztal's Cloud Picker Café began life across the road from its current venue, in the Science Gallery at Trinity College where they delighted a loyal clientèle for nearly a decade.
The pair are best known as specia ... more...
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