After speaking at a recent food conference at UCC, Innovation in Irish Food and Drink: Past, Present and Future, I was subsequently invited by Airfield Estate CEO Gráinne Kelliher to deliver something similar at their inaugural Airfield Estate Irish Foodscape talks series. Airfield Estate is a wonderful 38-acre working city farm in Dundrum, in Dublin, complete with livestock, splendid gardens and an excellent restaurant, Overends, it operates as both an educational and recreational facility and is the type of local resource that would be the envy of any major European city. The Overend family were the original owners and Naomi and Leticia Overend and, in a truly enlightened move, established Airfield as a charitable trust in 1974.
It was a wonderful day with great and very varied speakers (http://www.airfield.ie/archive/airfield-estate-food-series/) including the legendary Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh and seems to have gone down well with the audience. Due to time constraints, I had to give my own brand of waffle a severe trimming on the day so was asked by Airfield Estate to subsequently post the entire lecture online. Here it be: Joe McNamee _ Cupcakes _ April 2017
Joe McNamee: Food Writer 
Blessed to live close to Airfield. They run a great show and we need more of this type of place in our communities. It really is a rare thing.
It really is wonderful, Conor, I think I’d near enough haunt the place with my younger pair if I were living in Dublin!