As heard on RTE Radio
We launched Made with Grá live on air!
RTE Re:Ignite let us pitch and share the story behind our first ever box and why small Irish food brands deserve better.
🎧 Hit play below to hear the pitch that started it all.
OpenHive honey
Hive to jar honey with purpose. Founded in 2019 by three bee loving friends Kyle, Mark and Jack, OpenHive nurtures Ireland’s native black honeybee through natural, low intervention beekeeping across Dublin, Wicklow and Galway. Each jar, screen printed to cut out plastic labels, tastes of place and helps protect pollinators for the future.
Scarlet for yer ma hot sauce
Cheeky name, serious flavour. After years in California’s TV world, Brian O’Neill came home to Dublin to create a sauce “so pure it would sing in your mouth.” From breakfast eggs to late night noodles, it is approachable heat with an Irish twist.
Joe’s farm crisps
When supermarket margins squeezed the farm, Joe and Sandra Burns fought back with vegetables. Inspired by Boston’s crisp scene, they launched their own in 2014. Today, every bag is grown, sliced, cooked and packed on their East Cork farm. As Sandra says, “shake the hand that feeds you.”
The Chocolate Man from Donegal
From tech guy to chocolatier, Axel Pawlik swapped IT for cacao and never looked back. In a small kitchen in the hills of Donegal, he handcrafts bonbons that look like art and taste like pure imagination. Flavours range from blueberry almond to rosemary seaweed and matcha.
Rívesci Fiery Fung
Born from a food truck in Clonmel, Shannon Forrest and Michelin trained chef Declan Malone turned a side hustle into an award winning food brand. Their smoky, fiery fung has won a Great Taste award, and once you drizzle it you will see why.