Breakfast of champions

The Dunnes Stores Simply Better range has a well-deserved reputation for award-winning food and drink. Behind the scenes it also champions small Irish producers, helping them to grow while doing what they do best

Simply Better’s handmade granola is produced by the Foods of Athenry in Co Galway

Co Galway’s Foods of Athenry has been operating as a bakery and food business for close to twenty years but it had to overcome more than a few challenges to become the successful operation it is today.

In 2004 Siobhan Lawless and her family made the decision to pivot from a full-time dairy farm into a full-time bakery. The following decade saw them navigate all sorts of ups and downs including a devastating fire in ...