Artisan bread producer Arbutus Bread in Mayfield, Cork, has raised €26,000 from peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Linked Finance to fund expansion of the business with the purchase of new bread making equipment.

 

TO what degree does snobbery influence the madcap rush to third-level education driven by the Leaving Certificate points system contrasting starkly with the number of young people wishing to become craftspeople? 

There is “no recession in Irish, quality food”, according to John McKenna, author of the national food bible, The Irish Food Guide.