Maurice Kettyle interview: 'We’ve had BSE, we’ve had foot and mouth, now we have Brexit'

Ask the managing director of Kettyle Irish Foods what he does for a living, and he’ll reply that he controls water. But that’s only one of the steps required to create some of the tastiest beef in the country

Maurice Kettyle PIc: Fergal Phillips

CV: Maurice Kettyle

Role: managing director, Kettyle Irish Foods

Age:46

Lives: Fermanagh

Hobbies:“I used to play a lot of rugby, but since the kids came along I haven’t had as much time for it”

Favourite movie: The Green Mile

Last book read: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

In the first floor bar at Fade Street Social in Dublin, I’m waiting patiently for Maurice Kettyle, the man whose beef is on the menu there ...