Irish Atlantic Salt News

At Irish Atlantic Salt we are constantly working hard to develop our brand, reach our customers and broaden our market. We are on the road a lot, at trade shows, doing market research, investigating new markets and along the way we get to meet some fantastic people!

Food & Hospitality Ireland

We were delighted to exhibit at this year's Specilaity & Fine Food Fair in London in September. We were one of many Irish food producers exhibiting under the large Bord Bía Stand at the highly acclaimed Food Fair. During the 3 days of the event, we met with some interesting people in the Speciality Food industry.

Food and Hospitality Ireland Exhibition

In September, we exhibited at the Food & Hospitality Ireland expo held in Dublin's RDS. The Trade Event incorporated SHOP, an event close to our hearts as it was at SHOP 2010 that we launched Irish Atlantic Sea Salt. We were delighted to exhibit this year and it was great to see how our range of products has grown since launching in 2010.

Success at Great Taste Awards 2013

Our Flavoured Irish Sea Salts wowed judges at Great Taste 2013 by being awarded a total of FOUR awards in the world’s largest and most rigorous food awards scheme which involves over 400 judges and thousands of hours of blind tasting.The Great Taste Awards are a hugely important accolade for any food producer and we are just chuffed to include these Gold Stars to our list.

Organic Certification

We are delighted that our sea salt facility has been granted Organic Status from the Organic Trust Ltd. This makes our sea salt an ideal ingredient for use in Organic food production.

Eyeries Family Festival with Paul Flynn

We had a wonderful day at the Eyeries Family Festival in July. It was great to meet all of our local customers and a lot of new faces too! Chef Paul Flynn from the Tannery Restaurant gave a wonderful cookery demo and spent some time with us chatting about our sea salts. Here is Aileen with Chef Paul Flynn at the Festival.

Kenmare Food Carnival

During the weekend of July 13th-14th, Kenmare Town in County Kerry transformed into a foodie haven for the Kenmare Food Carnival. The sun was shining, the foodies were out in force and Kenmare Town was a hive of activity for the weekend.

We had a stall at the Food Market where we met some fantastic people and we spread our Irish sea salt story. We did tastings of our new range and these went down a treat! Congratulations to the organisers of this wonderful event, we're already looking forward to next year.

L-R Aileen & Jo-Anne at the Irish Atlantic Stall for the Kenmare Food Carnival (Photo Niall Duffy)

Adding flavour to our Irish sea salt flakes

We recently launched our new range of flavour infused Irish sea salt flakes. The new range includes flavours such as Lemon & Pepper, Aromatic Garlic and Chilli & Paprika. These new flavoured salt flakes come in a handy 110g pack and are sure to add some flavour to your foods.

Our white sea salt flakes are now also available in these 110g packs. You will find our range in select Tesco and Dunnes Stores outlets across the country. Check out our list of stockists here.

Women & Agriculture Awards 2013

Aileen was recently nominated for the Women & Agriculture Award, sponsored by FBD. The Awards recognise the increasingly significant role women play in the Irish Agri-food industry. We were delighted to welcome the judges to Cahermore when they came to meet Aileen and see what Irish Atlantic Salt is all about. Mairead Lavery, Irish Country Living, JOhn Duff, FBD and Cathal O'Donoghue, Teagasc paid a visit to the sea salt facility and were very impressed with Aileen's enthusiasm and dedication to the family business. We attended the Awards Ceremony recently and we were thrilled that Aileen was a Runner Up in the Agribusines & Innovation Category. Well done Aileen!

Check out this You Tube video of Aileen being presented with her prize.

Keogh's Farm & O'Neill's Irish Atlantic Sea Salt

We're delighted to be working with Keogh's Farm on their latest crisp, which has 'Just a Pinch of Irish Atlantic Sea Salt'. Keogh's Farm are committed to using Irish ingredients for their artisan Irish crisps and were thrilled to be able to use Irish sea salt for their 'Lightly Salted' crisp. Tom and Ross Keogh came to Beara recently to launch the new crisp with us.

L-R Michael O'Neill, Tom Keogh, Aileen O'Neill and Ross Keogh (Photo Niall Duffy)

Catherine Fulvio

Catherine Fulvio, of Ballyknocken Cookery School visited West Cork recently to launch the Little Fighters' Cookbook in aid of Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin. We attended the launch and Aileen presented Catherine with samples of our new range of Irish sea salt products, which will be available soon.

Aileen O'Neill and Catherine Fulvio

Bord Bía/Tesco Supplier Development Programme

We have been selected as one of 17 Irish food producers taking part in the Bord Bía/Tesco Supplier Development Programme. Also supported by Enterprise Ireland, this retail programme aims to equip companies with the skills they need to secure, grow and maintain business with Tesco.

New blog

Life, with a pinch of sea salt is our fabulous new blog. Here, we write about food, local happenings, fellow foodies, Irish food producers and we salivate over the amazing recipes, with Irish Atlantic Sea Salt flakes, that chefs across the country have sent us. Visit blog

Kevin Dundon

Chef Kevin Dundon recently came to SuperValu in Castletownbere and treated us to a wonderful cookery demo. Chef Kevin Dundon is another huge fan of our sea salt flakes and we were delighted to meet him.

Aileen O'Neill, Irish Atlantic Salt and Chef Kevin Dundon. (Photo: Niall Duffy)

Donal Skeehan

The wonderful Chef Donal Skeehan is a fan of Irish Atlanitc Sea Salt flakes. Read what he had to say about our sea salt flakes in his blog. Click here to view.

Company of the Year 2012

Irish Atlantic Salt Ltd. won the West Cork Enterprise Board's Company of the Year Award 2012. It is a huge honour and we are so proud to accept the prestigeous title.

Read about it here.

Pictured in Glengarriff, Co. Cork were, (L-R) Michael O'Neill, Irish Atlantic Salt, Michael Hanley, West Cork Enterprise Board, Michael Hennebry, West Cork Enterprise Board and Aileen O'Neill, Irish Atlantic Salt. (Photo:Niall Duffy)

Irish Food Guide

We are delighted to feature in the Bridgestone Irish Food Guide 2013. John and Sally McKennas’ The Irish Food Guide is the definitive work on Ireland’s burgeoning speciality food culture. It describes all the best places to find and enjoy some of the world’s best ingredients and cooking.