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Evan Talty of Wild Irish Seaweeds.

Evan Talty of Wild Irish Seaweeds.

For over one hundred years and four generations, Evan Talty’s family have been harvesting seaweed from the shore of their home place in Caherush County Clare.

His great grandfather supplied local markets with seaweed to use as fertiliser, and then his grandfather began exporting to Scotland.

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