Buying Irish is key to jobs and food exports

THE threat posed to Irish food firms by rising costs and the difficulties engulfing the economy was high- lighted recently by the Irish Food Writers’ Guild (IFWG).

Local food producers risk being forced out of business by low-quality cheap imports, the IFWG warned, with artisan and small- to medium-scale food producers seen as particularly vulnerable, the guild’s chairperson Orla Broderick said.

She chose the occasion of the guild’s annual producer awards to raise her concerns for the future of a key part of our indigenous food sector.