Blas na hÉireann Food Awards for long-running enterprises and new businesses

Cashel Farmhouse Cheesemakers, founded in 1984, won the prestigious Best Artisan Producer award, while Bon Chocolatiers, Co Offaly, founded in 2020, took the Supreme Champion accolade

Sarah Furno with her husband Sergio and their son Lucas of Cashel Farmhouse Cheesemakers, Co Tipperary. The company has won the prestigious Best Artisan Producer accolade at the Blas na hÉireann Food Awards. Picture: Chani Anderson

The two major accolades at the Blas na hÉireann Food Awards 2025 in Dingle, Co Kerry, were shared between an aristocrat of the Irish food world and a relatively new business that was born out of a lockdown project.

Cashel Farmhouse Cheesemakers, from Co Tipperary, who have been making world-renowned Cashel Blue cheese since 1984, won the prestigious Best Artisan Producer accolade while Bon Chocolatiers, from Co Offaly, founded during lockdown in 2020 by a young couple, Georgia Quealy and Daniel Linehan, who met at college while training to be chefs, were crowned Supreme Champion for their superb chocolates.