From baby food to breweries, and steaks to sushi, small local producers are gaining support by producing quality goods. On the second day of the two-part series, Grainne McGuinness talks to some more local food heroes that have tasted success at home and abroad, but continue to work hard to grow their businesses

It didn’t quite compensate for the recent failure to bring back Sam to the Kingdom, but there was great local delight at the crowning of Cahirciveen company Quinlan’s Seafood as supreme champions at the Blás na hÉireann Food Awards as part of the annual Dingle Food Festival that took place in the Kerry over the weekend.

For this week’s Q & A Kehlan talks with Irene Queally from Pip And Pear. The company has just launched nationwide and produces organic baby food. Irene talks about how it grew from home cooking to national sales.    

So-called culinary athletes are set to grab the limelight at one of the country’s leading food events in October.

STARTED only to keep a manufacturing license, and running on formulae sketched out on napkins, the monks of craft beer in the Franciscan Well Brewery must have had divine inspiration.