ICA ladies star on Ear to the Ground

Wexford ICA ladies made it onto our TV screens last week when they appeared in a segment on RTÉ’s Ear to the Ground — the topic was food and farming in 1916. 

What were the parallels between the foods eaten then and the super foods that are popular now?

Wexford ICA president Deirdre Connery, federation PRO Joe Keane, Eleanor O’Connor of Castlebridge Guild and Mary Fenlon, Killinick Guild tasted dishes of pig’s head, brawn, sheep’s heart, coddle (commonly eaten in the Dublin region) and stuffed apples. These foods were popular in a time when “there were rows [in homes] over pig’s ear and snout.”