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Killarney chef introduces school children to the joy of cooking

By Sean Moriarty
Well-known Killarney chef Chad Byrne is set to appear on a series of on-line cookery classes aimed at primary school children who want to learn new skills during the lockdown.

Byrne, who is the head chef at the Brehon Hotel, is no stranger to online cookery classes.

He is the founder of Chef Collab, a mentoring programme for apprentice chefs and the Kerry County Cooking Championships. As a result of these and other projects he is involved in he has participated in several initiatives promoting workplace opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities and during the early days of lockdown, he produced a series of online cookery classes.

The classes got the attention of the National Parents Council, a national organisation that supports the parents of children in primary or early education, and they invited him to produce a series of cooking classes aimed at children.

“The classes are based on simple tasks and a bit of fun,” he told the Killarney Advertiser. “It is nothing too complicated and a bit of craic.”

The programmes will be broadcast on npc.ie and registered parents and teachers will get an email in advance of the first broadcast.