Cocktail business started during lockdown secures West Cork business award

Tara Copplestone returned home from New York to spend lockdown in Cork

Tara Copplestone of Foxglove Cocktails, winner of the Network Ireland West Cork Business Woman of the Year Emerging New Business Award, pictured with NIWC President Katherine 0'Sullivan; Awards co-ordinator Marie Wiseman; keynote speaker Louise O'Neill; and Sheila McCarthy of AIB, official partner of Network Ireland.

A Cork woman who came home from New York for lockdown has won the award for Emerging New Business Owner at this year’s Network Ireland West Cork Businesswoman of the Year Awards.

Tara Copplestone of Foxglove Cocktails founded the business with her brother during her prolonged stay in Ireland. Today, Foxglove Cocktails sell cocktail mixers online, delivering all over Ireland as well as selling at local markets across Cork.