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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Dingle delight impresses a Guardian of great food
BY DONAL HICKEY
AT a time when Kerry and Killarney, in particular, continue to receive an unfair bashing from some media commentators in relation to tourism, it’s encouraging to report a bit of good news.
The well-respected Guardian newspaper, in Britain, recently published a most favourable report by one of its writers about a visit to Cork and Kerry.
Miranda Krestonvikoff travelled here with her husband and children on the Swansea/Cork ferry and, having the sampled the delights of Cork city’s iconic English Market, set off on a journey of the south-west which they clearly enjoyed.
They came, she said, on a "foodie break" and were looking for local organic food, of which they found plenty.
One of Dingle’s best food experiences, she reported, is Murphy’s Ice Cream. Dropping into the shop, they were greeted with a smile and a tasting from co-owner Seán Murphy.
He talked them through the production process and reminded the children that the milk came from Kerry cows. Some children nowadays think milk come from a carton.
The Krestonvikoffs are a well-travelled family, but Miranda, who will be forgiven for calling a Dingle a village, said that nowhere had beaten the warm family welcome and the hands-on food education they had in southern Ireland.
She concluded: "They (children) now know all about fish being alive and swimming in the sea one moment and dead and ready to eat the next; they know ice-cream comes from cows living in a green field and not from a plastic tub in Tesco; and they know chips don't have to come with every meal."
Brothers Seán and Kieran Murphy, who also have a shop in Killarney, have celebrated their 10th anniversary in the ice cream business by opening two new shops in Temple Bar and Wicklow Street, Dublin.
Their success is not based on any magical formula: they stick with basic, natural ingredients to produce interesting, if simple, flavours.
By opening shops in Dublin, the Murphys obviously do not see the recession as an impediment to expansion.
Indeed, many highly successful businesses have started in bad economic times. One of the advantages is that, in such times, costs are low and if you can establish a foothold in the market, you’ll be all set to capitalise when the economy improves.
Still on entrepreneurial matters, three enterprising women – Mary Howard, Rachel Foley and Caitriona Dunlea – have launched Munster Ancestors, a new genealogy business in Killarney.
It’s all about helping people to trace their family history and has the potential to attract more visitors from other countries to see where their roots are.
Munster Ancestors had a great launch the other night at the Park Place Apartments, in High Street, where splendid views of the town can be had from the top floor balconies.
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