Innovative companies are driving Ireland’s near-€8bn foodservice sector, writes Ruth Doris

STEVE COLLINS’ life has always been unusual. His parents were trailblazers in their own ways — his mother one of the world’s first commercial airline pilots, his father a stunt pilot whose tricks included ‘kicking’ a football with the plane’s wing.

ON A very windy hill in south west Cork an unusual herd of cattle is farmed by a colourful couple.