Engineering a future in cheese

A woman who had worked around the world as an electrical engineer for leading multinational companies has achieved her dream of becoming a successful farmhouse cheese producer in Co Cork.

Her story was one of the cases outlined at a recent symposium at University College Cork, where a diploma programme in speciality food production is now 10 years in existence.

Norma Dinneen, of Bó Rua Farm in Ballynoe, graduated under the programme in 2014 and, with her husband Tom, set about producing cheese with the finest milk from their contented Montbeliarde herd, also known as the ‘red cows’.