Currabinny Cooks: Why you'll never throw another banana away again

This is our famous banana loaf recipe which has been with us since our very first market. It remains our most popular recipe, which ain’t bad for something as humble as a banana bread

Although bananas are not grown commercially in Ireland due to our temperate climate, we do apparently eat five million of them every week, so we are going to loosen up what it means to be local just this once.

Bananas, which are technically herbs and not fruit, grow in tropical regions like the Caribbean where we import most of our bananas from.