Chefs aiming to roll into culinary history books with 8ft pizza

Chefs from a West Cork pizzeria are bidding to get into the record books next weekend with what they claim will be Ireland’s biggest ever pizza.

The monster 96in dish will be created by the Oak Fire Pizzeria in Skibbereen.

It will require 20kg of the restaurant’s special pizza dough, five litres of tomato sauce, 10kg of cheese and between 10kg and 15kg of topping, which includes everything from pepperoni, ham, spicy beef, parma ham, olives and onions to black pudding.