Meet the migrant chefs revolutionising Cork's food scene

Izz Alkarajeh emerged from direct provision to open one of Cork’s most exciting new restaurants – Izz Cafe. Joe McNamee on our new migrant chefs, their respective cuisines and the impact on our native dishes

Our geographical location at the edge of Europe means we have seen comparatively few of the some 68 million displaced migrants estimated by the World Health Organisation to exist in the world today but there are still approximately 6,000 asylum seekers in the Irish Direct Provision system.