Meet the Cork family making fresh ice cream with simple ingredients in Nohoval

Using milk and cream from her family farm in Nohoval, Co Cork, Catherine Good of The Good Dairy Company is proudly producing local ice cream

Catherine Good with vanilla ice-cream at the Good Dairy Company, Kinsale, Co Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

The sun can be splitting the stones, or it could be a grey, drizzly day: come summertime, we all scream for ice cream, and some, particularly the under-10s, louder than others.

There’s nothing quite like walking along a beach at sunset while tackling a scoop of vanilla or grabbing a gelato to cool kids and parents down on a day in the city. It’s not a health food, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t deserve an occasional place in your diet.