More cheese awards for Old Irish Creamery range

PRODUCTS from the Effin based Old Irish Creamery brand won three gold awards and three very highly commended certificates at this year’s Nantwich International Cheese Show, which is held annually in Cheshire in the U.K.

This is in addition to the already glittering array of awards won both in international and domestic cheese shows and brings the number of awards won for excellence of product to over 90 in recent years. This is all the more creditable when one considers that this year’s Nantwich Show set a world record with 5,000 cheese and dairy product entries in what the organisers say is the biggest and best cheese show in the world.

Old Irish Creamery cheese is manufactured in Effin, just a few miles over the Limerick border from Charleville, by former Golden Vale cheese factory master cheese maker Jim O’Doherty, who is joined in the venture by his son James and wife Lulu. Here they produce a superb range of natural speciality cheeses for the home and export markets from their own specific formulations using only the finest ingredients.

“We are a family run enterprise with a huge emphasis on producing top quality cheeses which are on a par and indeed surpass any other cheese products made anywhere in the world. This is borne out by the awards we have won in open international competition at Nantwich and in the World Cheese Awards, as well as here at home in Ireland. We are justly proud of what our family run enterprise has achieved,” says Jim O’Doherty.

“This year we have added Pumpkin Seed, Beetroot and Chia, Coffee and Murphy’s Irish Stout flavours to our already extensive range of natural cheeses and these are already in the shops and are also in much demand on the export market. The addition of these flavours brings to 22 the number of flavours available in our brand range from Old Irish Creamery and already proving to be a big hit with our customers,” said James O’Doherty, who looks after the marketing of the cheese products.