Category Archives: Saturday Food Market

Nolan’s of Corbally Butchers

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise in Limerick – aka Pigtown – that we have a growing number of really exceptional artisan butchers, and the Milk Market is home to one of the city’s finest, Alan Nolan of Nolans of Corbally Butchers.  Wexford-born, Alan found his home in Limerick after years working in….

Jane Neville Jewellery

Limerick’s Milk Market is famous for the variety and international flavour of its food stalls, but the market is also home to many gifted craftspeople, none more accomplished than Jane Neville, who has been selling her designer jewellery at the market for almost a decade. “I make traditional necklaces with freshwater pearls and with fire….

Sefik Dikyar’s Baklava To Die For at the Milk Market

Sefik Dikyar’s journey to Limerick from the town of Tire, near the city of Izmir on Turkey’s Aegean coast, has all the drama of the hit film Four Weddings and a Funeral. A surprise invitation to a wedding, then a last-minute invite to stand in as an emergency witness for the groom, led to Sefik….

Ecaterina Cakes

Ecaterina has been selling the most beautiful cakes imaginable in the Milk Market for ten years. Like a lot of the traders in the market, she learned her trade at her mother’s knee. “Like a lot of Irish people, especially the women in the Milk Market, I learned how to bake from my mother. I….

Happy Food At Home

Ciara Brennan started cooking at the age of four, learning at her mother Jocelyn’s knee as soon as she was old enough to stir a pot.  Even from that tender age, Ciara knew too things: she loved cooking, and she did not like the taste of meat. So began a love affair with cooking and….

Wilde Irish Chocolates at The Limerick Chocolate Shop

Money can’t buy you happiness but it can buy you chocolate, which is a pretty good substitute, especially for a self-confessed chocoholic like Patricia Farrell. Patricia, pictured left, and her husband Con were both working in the Burren Visitor Centre in the late 1990s when they had the idea of setting up a business that….

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