As I scroll through my social media keeping one eye on my girls doing their jigsaws at the kitchen table I experience a surge of rage. I am in my mid-30s and a lot of my pals are of a similar age. My fury is ignited by the Instagram posts of their daily deliveries of cosmetics and clothes.

Beef dripping made from the suet of grass-fed Angus and Hereford beef by James Whelan Butchers in Clonmel, Co Tipperary is one of five Irish entries placed in the top 50 of the Great Taste Awards.