Fourth generation farmers, the Robinson family - Lorna and Sam,sons Robert and Richard, with occasional help from their nursing daughter, Clare - focus on beef (Aberdeen Angus/Limousin cross heifers), lamb (Texel cross) and free-range egg production on ... more...
Just along from Bushe's Bar, La Jolie Brise Pizza & Grill is run by Youen Jacob Jnr, and is part of The Waterfront Hotel complex which neatly frames a corner of the square.
A cheerful continental-style café, it spills out on to the pavement ... more...
Situated directly opposite the National Concert Hall and just a stroll away from St Stephen's Green, this fine city centre Dublin hotels celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2005 with the completion of a €15 million refurbishment programme whic ... more...
Lough Derg Chocolates is another of the good news stories to have come out of the recession - as Malachy and Elaine Dorris will be happy to tell you if you meet them out at events, they may have lost their old jobs, but now they have their own successf ... more...
Nestled at the foot of Mount Leinster, on the Wicklow Way, Linda Larkin's charming old world home bakery and café suits this delightful traditional village to a tee.
Whether you're walking, exploring the Ancient East, en route to or from the f ... more...
Established in 1981, Trevor and Margaret White are keen to promote tasty vegetables from the surrounding area. You'll also find local fruit in season, such as Armagh apples, at this family-run greengrocery and deli, although imports are offered too to ... more...
Husband and-wife team Valentina and Owen Doorly are behind Il Valentino and are passionate about Italian food. Their Grand Canal Basin bakery may boast a modern, super stylish interior – with oranges, pinks, modern plastic seating and leather ban ... more...
The folk at Clandeboye Estate are inordinately proud of their cows. And so they should be, as their small herd of 80 pedigree Holstein and Jersey cows has won an outrageous amount of rosettes - and it's the rich milk they make from the lush grass on th ... more...
Manus McGonagle has harvested seaweed on the Donegal coast since he was a child and his special hand harvested and air-dried products are keenly sought out by those in the know, in Ireland and beyond.
In 2012, however, he was propelled into the nation ... more...
Formerly The Dromoland Inn, this modern hotel overlooking the Shannon estuary was built in the grounds of Dromoland Castle in the 1960s but, although it shared the golf course, it was independently owned and operated. until 2012, when he property was r ... more...