European protected status a ‘game-changer’ for Armagh Bramley apple growers

Greg MacNeice, founder of Mac Ivors Cider, at the orchards at Ardress in Co Armagh (Philip Magowan/PA)

Recognition with an elite European protected status has been a “game-changer” for the Armagh Bramley apple, a grower of the speciality has said.

Armagh Bramleys are one of just three products from Northern Ireland — along with Comber new potatoes and Lough Neagh eels  — to be recognised by the European Union’s protected geographical indications (PGI) scheme.