Good Food Ireland

Mag Kirwan has spent more than 25 years farming trout and is the business brains behind the Irish enterprise she married scending.

band to be, Ger, at his parents’ Kilkenny farm – and it is also how she is branding her latest venture, a trout recipe book.

Mag and Ger, an engineer, met at University College Dublin and when

Ger and decided to get stuck into rainbow trout farming.

Goatsbridge was established in the early 1960s by Padraig and Rita Kirwan (now aged rants and hotels.

Mag, with a relevant academic background and her own family’s entrepreneurial spirit (they were horse breeders), worked with Ger and his parents, learning the trade, working in the hatchery and in packaging.