Built on a foundation of friendship and innovation, West Cork Distillers was established in 2003 by three lifelong friends, Denis McCarthy, Ger McCarthy and John O’Connell in the heart of West Cork at Union Hall.

The addition of three new restaurants to the Irish Michelin portfolio elevated interest in the international food guide’s prestigious accolade.

The June Bank Holiday is easily my favourite holiday especially as it heralds the beginning of summer.

Rapidly growing West Cork Distillers, which was set up by local Union Hall ex-trawlermen and who now export to over 35 countries, have paid c€1.5 million for a former fish-processing plant on Skibbereen’s Marsh Road to allow them to continue their spirit-based business growth trajectory.

In the 1980s there were just two distilleries in Ireland. Today there are at least a dozen. Peter Mulryan explores this boom in his new book, The Whiskeys of Ireland, writes Leslie Williams.

25 new jobs will be created across the country.

Giving a gift of poitín — or adding a dash of it to the plum pudding — has become much more possible this Christmas following the launch of new drinks company, Coomara.

THE artisan food producers of Cork and Kerry were out in force at a food forum organised recently in Cork.