ICA news: First €50 of brown bread prize will go for ICA membership

A mum of two from Roscommon has said she will join ICA after winning the National Brown Bread Baking Competition at last week’s Ploughing Championships.

Margaret Sexton said she was “up against the best of the best” when she contested the final alongside Carmel Walsh, Kilkenny; Phyllis McGovern, Waterford; and Pauline Carney, Monaghan. She believed her brown bread had a “modern twist”, which might have given it the edge.

“I didn’t just make a brown square. I looked at the health aspects of the bread. We’re all out running the roads, trying to get healthy.