2023 marks the 30th year of the prestigious and annual Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards, which remark the breadth, beauty and diversity of the Irish food and drink landscape.

Among the winners awarded at this year’s ceremony, which took place in Dublin on Tuesday 7th March, were producers of smoked Irish eel, unique sheep’s milk yoghurt from Co. Mayo, a Gaeltacht-based, female-led craft brewery, an eco-conscious, sustainable pig farm operation in the Boyne Valley and blessed are the cheesemakers: Gabriel Faherty of Aran Islands Goat’s Cheese for his notable contribution to Irish food and brothers Kevin and Seamus Sheridan who were bestowed a lifetime achievement award.