ICA news: Excitement builds ahead of national brown bread finals

As a brown bread baker, Bishopstown ICA’s Mary O’Connor is self-taught and used a recipe she found in a 2011 newspaper at last month’s regional finals of the Aldi Brown Bread Baking competition in An Grianán.

Mary is one of eight contestants whittled down from 27 who will compete in the semi-finals at the National Ploughing Championships later this month.

The mum of two freely admits she goes through phases of making brown bread.