Fergusons take Gubbeen cheese on a path to global success

Fingal Ferguson says that Gubbeen, his family’s smoked cheese and salmon business, gains from Irish agriculture’s clean, green global reputation. He talks to Rita de Brún

Tom and Fingal Ferguson, of Gubbeen, the popular smoked cheese and smoked salmon business in West Cork.

Fingal Ferguson comes from a line of strange names. He told me so himself.

“My mother is Giana,” he says. “My sister is Clovisse.” As for himself, he’s called after Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde. “My grandfather was a writer,” he says. “He liked the name. That’s how I got it.”