A slow walk on the wild side

Slow food and seaweed make an intriguing combination for this year’s Burren Slow Food Festival

Oonagh O’Dwyer of Wild Kitchen collecting seaweed at Lahinch in Co Clare
The Burren Slow Food Festival will include a guided walk and picnic

Oonagh O’Dwyer may have grown up in landlocked countryside, but she feels completely at home in coastal Co Clare – and not just because she’s been there for 30 years.

“I’ve always been fascinated by wild plants,” says O’Dwyer, whose company Wild Kitchen organises wild food walks and picnics in the Burren. “I grew up in the Glen of Aherlow, so I had ...