Making it Work

Kildare chocolate firm follows customer appetite for new flavours

Buíoch Chocolate is evolving bespoke products for the wedding market and other events

Daryl Johnson, co-founder of Buíoch Irish Chocolates: ‘We basically just fell into chocolates by pure chance.’ Picture by Fergal Phillips

Buíoch, a small Irish chocolate manufacturer based in Celbridge, Co Kildare, is targeting the bespoke wedding and event market for growth and putting a greater focus on developing customisable products.

Founded in 2020 by Ryan O’Flynn, a former chef, and his friend Daryl Johnson, Buíoch started when Flynn lost his job during the Covid pandemic. With a range of handmade Irish delicacies such as biscuits and jams, chocolates were only a side project at the ...