‘When I think back now to when we got started – I don’t know how we did it really!’ says Jeffa Gill, of her career de

Veronica Steele's Milleens Cheese was the first artisan farmhouse cheese in Ireland, now created exactly the same way today, by Veronica and Norman's son Quinlan

Boyne Valley Blue is similar to English Stilton in texture – a brown rinded crumbly cheese with good veins of blue throughout. The cheese has come to the attention of several high profile names since production began.

Ardsallagh Goat Farm, run by Jane Murphy in Cork, produces some of Ireland's finest fresh goats cheese, yogurt and milk.

One thing we know how to do in Ireland is make good farmhouse cheese.