Weathering the storms and producing award-winning cheese in East Cork

Bó Rua farm has been producing farmhouse cheese since 2018
Weathering the storms and producing award-winning cheese in East Cork

Norma and Tom Dinneen on their Bo Rua Farm in Fermoy produce cheese from their dairy herd which includes French-bred Montbéliarde. Picture: Dan Linehan. 

The old saying ‘Look after the cows and the cows will look after you’ is at the heart of everything at Bó Rua Farm in Fermoy, Co Cork.

From the way in which owners Tom and Norma Dinneen graze their herd of Montbéliard and Friesian cows, to how they handcraft their artisan, farmhouse cheese, the cows are the engine of the mighty machine on their farm.

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