March 10, 2021 10:58 am
There is clear evidence that consumers are increasingly buying Irish throughout the global health pandemic brought about by Covid-19, delegates at a key food and drinks industry symposium hosted by Love Irish Food today (Wednesday, March 10) will hear.
The Love Irish Food seminar, which is being streamed live online today, includes keynote addresses from An Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar, and leading industry experts on the future of Irish produced food and drinks brands.
According to research from Kantar, to be presented during the Love Irish Food conference, 44 of the ‘top 100 selling’ take-home grocery brands in Ireland during 2020 were Irish-produced.
Irish Breakfast at Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub & Restaurant in downtown Colorado Springs. Irish breakfast includes: bacon, sausages, baked beans, eggs, mushrooms, grilled or broiled tomatoes and cooked leftover potatoes made into hash. Toast, butter, marmalade and tea are also part of the meal. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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on 08 Mar 2021 Take Your Front Row Seat at this Year’s St. Patrick’s Festival Dúisigh Éire! Awaken Ireland! is the theme of this year s St Patrick’s Festival (March 12-17).
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St Patrick’s Festival is understandably going to be a little different this year, but that’s not to say the team behind the festival hasn’t created an amazing, world-class programme of events for us all to enjoy, at home here in Ireland and for our Irish family across the globe. Dúisigh Éire! Awaken Ireland! is this year’s theme, a clarion call to the Irish across the world to throw off the long, dark months and rise to embrace the brighter days ahead. It promises to be a positive and uplifting celebration of our incredible people, our beautiful island, our community bonds, our young people, artists, creators and makers and our diaspora across the world.
It always starts to feel like spring in Dallas when the North Texas Irish Festival rolls around. It’s generally the first in a series of fun festivals, but this year is going to be different. With Texas businesses opened up, we could start to see more festivals scheduled in the future, but the beloved Irish festival will happen virtually on March 6.
There’s a loaded schedule of five free livestreams of music and dance plus a paid virtual event streamed from Ireland. All can be found at the festival s website. The North Texas Irish Festival has signaled the start of spring here in Texas for some time,” Sheri Bush, president of the Southwest Celtic Music Association said. “We are pleased to be the warm-up to St. Patrick s Day and to bring musicians to our event before they play in many other places on St. Patrick s Day. This way, everyone gets the chance to hear this incredible music.
Live Streaming in China – Hot Trend – Unique Opportunities Part 1
22nd February 2021
Kieran Fitzgerald, Market Specialist China, Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board
Live streaming is the hottest trend of the Chinese e-commerce world right now, although it has been around for a number of years and is currently in its third phase. According to the South China Morning Post China Internet Report 2020, live streaming “is now a required marketing channel across industries, new and old”.
Over 560,000,000 netizens (more than half of all of China’s netizens) are now considered live stream users with the value of livestreaming estimated by to be between €100 and €124 billion (Forbes, Chozan). Products featured on live streams are primarily cosmetic products, fashion and food. The total of China’s e-commerce, according to Forbes, is projected to be $1 trillion dollars in 2020.