‘We’re busy all year round, not just at Easter,’ say Ireland’s chocolatiers

Wilde Irish Chocolate founder Patricia Farrell is getting ready to welcome tourists to the factory

Maeve McTaggart

Ireland’s chocolatiers are snatching a well-earned rest after a hectic few months of working to meet the biggest events on the chocolate calendar.

As well as Christmas and Easter, they have been working flat-out to meet the demand across St Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and St Patrick’s Day, moving seamlessly between chocolate Santa figures, hearts, flowers, shamrocks, eggs and bunnies.