The Monday Interview: Living the...ice-cream

Pádraig Hoare speaks to Thea Murphy, managing director of Silver Pail Dairy in Cork, the biggest independent ice-cream maker in Ireland, and which has entered the lucrative liqueur market

It sounds like the dream of every youngster in Ireland, being surrounded by delicious ice cream that your father made — but managing director of Silver Pail Dairy, Thea Murphy, learned about what it takes to run a business along the way.

Set up in Fermoy in 1978 by dairy scientist Michael Murphy, Silver Pail is the largest independent ice-cream manufacturer in Ireland.