Carnaross food festival attracts hundreds

Warm, sunny weather brought hundreds of people to Pottlereagh, Carnaross, on Sunday to an Irish food festival hosted by Sheridan's Cheesemongers celebrating all that is good about home-produced produce. Vendors of quality, home-produced cheeses, meats and other artisan foods from all over Ireland were kept busy throughout the day as crowds from all over the region flocked to the former Virginia Road railway station on the Meath-Cavan border, which is now home to Sheridan's, to sample and buy the fare on offer. Exhibitors included indigenous farmhouse cheese producers like Milleens, Cashel Blue, Corleggy and Coolea, as well as other artisan producers such as Gubbeen salami, Burren Smokehouse and Burke's Ice Cream. A variety of workshops were held throughout the day as well as a children's food workshop and among those giving cookery demonstrations were chef Pauric White of the adjacent Forge Restaurant and Ballinlough farmer and craft butcher Jim Ryan.