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Clewed in: Meet the Dublin coffee business helping to replenish Mayo’s oyster beds

The Green Ocean initiative from Watermark Coffee is funding habitat rehabilitation in Clew Bay

Alex Blackwell, manager of the Clew Bay oyster co-op, with David Lawlor of Watermark Coffee: a new initiative aims to promote habitat rehabilitation for oysters. Picture: Andrew Downes

David Lawlor is doing his bit to save the planet through the combination of coffee and oysters. It’s not a cocktail or a seafood dish, though – it’s an ecological project built around Green Ocean, a new brand from Watermark Coffee.

Watermark, which is co-owned by Lawlor and his wife Marguerite, is funding the resetting of the oyster cultch in Clew Bay through sales of Green Ocean. The cultch is essentially the space used by ...