How a thriving food industry faded away to nothing in the 1960s

At its peak, more than one million rabbits per year were exported from Co Cork alone in the early 1940s.

A thriving rural food industry once supported at least 20 large exporting firms in Co Cork alone... but it faded away to nothing in the 1960s.

But many of our existing 21st Century food businesses first became established in this sector, the wild rabbit trade.