The wonderful women of West Waterford Festival of Food

Joe McNamee talks to the dynamic team behind the West Waterford Festival of Food, which runs from April 9-12 in Dungarvan, and about how it has evolved into one of the country’s finest celebrations of culinary tradition and food heritage.

Now in its eighth year, the West Waterford Festival of Food, based in the beautiful little seaside town of Dungarvan, has evolved into one of the country’s finest celebrations of local culinary traditions and heritage.

And everywhere you look, there’s a woman at the wheel, driving the festival ever onwards and upwards, a remarkable bunch of mostly local ladies, all with a finger in the food business pie, who spend eight or nine months of each year planning and plotting the first big food event on the annual festival calendar.