Usually when food prices are rising, we know who to blame – the supermarkets. After all it is their tills that ring up our increasingly expensive weekly shops and the big multiples account for more than 90pc of food sales in Ireland and over 70pc in Europe. So if anyone is going to benefit, surely it is them.
In 2018, after 12 years in London we moved home to West Cork, where myself and my husband were reared.
One of the few upsides of the pandemic was the space and time it gave prospective entrepreneurs to develop ideas that might have remained vague dreams in real businesses.