About Us

Our Mission

Since 2009 our mission is to showcase, promote and celebrate authentic, Irish food and drink brands to the Irish shopper.

Love Irish Food helps shoppers make informed choices about buying Irish-produced food and drink brands. Our aim is to safeguard the future of food and drink brands that are produced in Ireland.

Our Vision

The Love Irish Food logo is the mark of authentic Irish food and drink brands.   A symbol that shoppers can trust.

Our Values

Trust

We do the work to ensure every brand in the Love Irish Food family is Irish produced.

Quality

We are committed to quality so only quality products, produced locally using available local ingredients can become a Love Irish Food member.

Sustainability

Sustainable is more than a word it is a way of life, it means protecting our environment and keeping people employed around Ireland from cities to towns and villages.

Assured

Over 80% of the value of our members products must be produced in the Republic of Ireland using available local ingredients giving you the assurance of a quality, Irish produced food and drink brands

Support

By shopping the Love Irish Food brands, you are supporting local communities, Irish jobs and our economy and reducing Ireland’s dependence on imported food.

Community

As a brand by joining the Love Irish Food organisation you have access to experts in the field of food and drink – be part of a local business community and have access to this family of experts.

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Meet our board of directors

Donald Williamson
Chair

An experienced General Manager with high capability across the full range of management skills. Expert in strategic business design and transformation, along with people development and coaching. Donald’s focused is on building speed and energy into an organisation which delivers great customer engagement and business growth.

Conor Kilduff

Executive Director 

A highly experienced business, marketing, and sales professional with over 35 years in the grocery and consumer goods industries. Conor has focused on brand and strategic development throughout his career having previously worked as the Sales & Marketing Director at Keelings Retail UC, overseeing and driving significant growth and brand creation. His earlier career at Unilever spanned 24 years, including roles as Managing Director and VP of Customer Development for Unilever Ireland.

Kieran Rumley

Kieran has over 40 years’ food marketing experienced focused on building brands in some of Ireland’s most iconic food brand companies.

He was the Executive Director of Love Irish Food from 2011 to 2024. Prior to that Kieran was Marketing Director at Batchelors Ireland for 22 years.  Previous experience include Marketing roles in Mitchelstown Co-Op, C&C and Showerings.

Kieran is a graduate of the University of Dublin-Trinity College, the University of Bath and is a Fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland.

Pat O’Farrell

Commercial Manager at Folláin, Folláin is a market leading family business producing Fruit Preserves, Relish & Chutneys from wholesome and natural ingredients for well over 30 years; Having previously worked in the Irish Seafood sector, and Chilled Sales & Distribution, Pat has extensive knowledge and experience within the Irish food community.

Mary Sadlier

Chief Executive Officer at Scion Spirits Company, Coole Swan Graduated from UCD with a degree in Economics. Joined Arthur Andersen and qualified as a chartered accountant specializing in taxation. Held various Global Roles in Diageo over a 7-year period including Director of Corporate Restructuring for LATAM & Middle East and Asia. Partner in Sadlier Reilly Capital, an early-stage development VC. Serves as a NED with Coole Swan and Love Irish Food.

Helen King

Owner of h k + a, a strategic marketing consultancy agency. Partnering with companies to unlock potential and drive growth by seeing the bigger picture, adopting new thinking, and providing clarity and focus. A marketing specialist with over 25 years experience working across local and international markets on both global and domestic brands, delivering success through consumer driven growth strategies. Understanding how future trends shape responses to strategic challenges.

Jim Power

Podcaster, Author  & Blogger. During a career within the financial services industry, he has worked as Treasury Economist at AIB Group, and Chief Economist at Bank of Ireland Group Treasury, and Chief Economist with Friends First Group. He runs his own Economic & Financial Consultancy Jim Power Economics. He does a twice-weekly podcast ‘The Other Hand’. He teaches on the MBA programme in Smurfit Business School, UCD.

Sian Young

Sustainable Business and Corporate Affairs Director at Britvic Ireland, the largest soft drinks manufacturer in the Republic of Ireland. Sian spent the first 15 years of her career in Marketing, managing some of Irelands best loved soft drinks and through them has been involved with Love Irish Food since its foundation. With experience in Marketing, HR, Commercial and Corporate Affairs roles alongside a proven record of leading change through Sustainability, she brings varied experience and a passion for championing locally sourced food and drink.

Michael McCambridge

Michael is Managing Director at McCambridge. He attended third level at UCD where he graduated with a Law degree & a Post Graduate Diploma in Business studies. Michael worked at Diageo from 1990-1994. He joined McCambridge in September 1994.

Emma Walls

CEO of National Dairy Council.

Previous commercial Director at Glenisk, Ireland’s top selling yogurt brand.
Board Member with responsibility for Sales, Marketing, Insight, Product Development, CSR and Customer Care.
Member of Bord Bia’s Brand Forum Steering Committee.

 

Aidan O’Byrne

Aidan O’Byrne is the owner of OBK Accountants Limited who provide specialised financial advice for the FMCG industry. He is a former Finance Director of Batchelors and former CFO of Valeo Foods. He is Chairman of the VHI Members Advisory Council and also serves as the Company Secretary of Love Irish Food.

James Flahavan

James Flahavan is international business development manager and company director at Flahavan’s. He previously worked in investment banking in London.