In this BPT interview, Sharon Noonan talks to Caroline Hennessy about the 2023 Irish Food Writers’ Guild Awards.

The winners of the 2023 Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards are:

Food Award: Smoked Lough Neagh Eel, Co Antrim
Food Award: Velvet Cloud Sheep’s Milk Yogurt, Co Mayo
Food Award: Ballylisk of Armagh, Co Armagh
Irish Drink Award: Beoir Chorcha Dhuibhne for Béal Bán, Co Kerry
Outstanding Contribution to Irish Food: Gabriel Faherty, Aran Island Goats’ Cheese, Co Galway
Environmental Award: The Wooded Pig, Co Meath
Community Food Award: Field of Dreams – Down Syndrome Cork, Co Cork
Lifetime Achievement Award: Kevin and Seamus Sheridan, Co Galway

Photograph by Paul Sherwood Photographer
Pictured: Group of winners Pat Close Lough Neagh Fishermans Cooperative, Adrienne Heslin West Kerry Brewery, Eoin Bird Wooded Pig, Mark Wright Ballylisk Dairies, Gabriel Faherty Aran Islands Goats Cheese, Aisling Flanagan Velvet Cloud with Nicky Green (left) and Debbie Kelleher (right) Down Syndrome Cork Field of Dreams

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