Behind the counter with Dino Cregan: 'You’re only as good as your last bag of chips'

Ahead of World Fish and Chips Day, Ellie O'Byrne spends a day behind the counter with Denis 'Dino' Cregan in his Kinsale chipper, as he marks five decades in business. Plus, we reveal Ireland's top 10 fish and chip shops, as voted by you   

Denis "Dino" Cregan at Dino's Family Chip Shop in Blackpool, Cork. Pic: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

No sooner has Denis Cregan walked through the doors into the sizzling, bustling kitchen of Dino’s chipper in Kinsale than he has his jacket off and is over at the fryers, or “pans” as he calls them, demonstrating how to fry the perfect chip.

“Come up here and I’ll show you,” he says, giving one of the baskets a brisk shake. “The first pan is one heat, the second is a different temperature, and the third is the hottest one then, and that finishes off the chip. See this?”