The true Gael will daily encounter multiple reasons to swell with fierce pride as he or she ambles about our fair land but there are few finer reasons than our magnificent farmhouse cheeses, now of such variety and quality as to justly earn us a prime place on the global cheeseboard.

Sustainability in farmhouse dairy will be top of the agenda when the sector’s leaders meet for the fifth European Farmhouse and Artisan Cheesemakers Congress at University College Cork on April 26.