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Back in the late 70s and early 80s, a revolution occurred in Irish food, and it happened in the most unlikely place, caused by a most unlikely group - women, working in agriculture, in rural Ireland.

The first Irish cheese pioneering revolutionary was Veronica Steele, of Milleens Cheese.