Pudding on the rich

EVEN if a new Ghawar oil field, one of the world’s most productive, was discovered just off Galley Head, it might take a decade or two for Clonakilty to be associated with oil.
The town has been so long linked with its own black gold — Clonakilty black pudding — that even a Dallas-comes-to-West-Cork bonanza might take a while to change the almost automatic association of the town with lovely rings of spiced pigs’ blood.