Joe McNamee: Vanessa Clarke was a true hidden hero of Irish food

"...and nobody dealt with s**t like Vanessa, a Zen-like combo of pragmatic calculation and inspired innovation."

"You mightn’t have known her name — precisely how she always liked it — but Vanessa Clarke was a true hidden hero of Irish food."

The life of the remarkable Vanessa Clarke was recently celebrated at a funeral service in Dublin, where she lived for many years, with her sons, Olan and Alex. 

Iarla Ó Lionáird and Imelda May sang and afterwards the coffin headed south to Cork.