WLRFM
Déise Today

The best of Waterford food, craft and design - Meet your Click Waterford Ambassadors

The best of Waterford food, craft and design - Meet your Click Waterford Ambassadors

Click Waterford

Waterford is home to hundreds of hard-working, passionate and creative designers, craftmakers, artists and food producers.

While COVID- 19 may have stopped us from visiting their stores, galleries, workshops and markets, we’re fortunate enough to have the opportunity to enjoy their goods as they move online.

Click Waterford is an initiative of Local Enterprise Office Waterford, which helps craft and design businesses get online. This Christmas, supporting local is as important as ever – so if you’re looking for the perfect gift, all you have to do is Click Waterford!

Amanda Murphy Ceramics
click-waterford-amanda-murphy-ceramics.

Ceramicist Amanda Murphy makes decorative hand-built stoneware ceramics including vases, platters and bowls. Each piece is hand-built, inspired by movement within the landscape. Inspired in the main by the landscape and the movement offered by views from above, the rippled bowls and jagged edge platters evoke the mountains and other undulations in the land. Amanda Murphy studied ceramic design at the Crawford College in Cork. After college she spent time travelling, dividing her time between Ireland and Australia. She then successfully completed the Pottery Throwing Skills course in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny in 2001. Amanda started making her own range of Ceramics inspired by a 'bird's eye view' of the Irish landscape in 2003 and is now living in Co Waterford with her husband and children.

Click Waterford Coastguard Cultural Centre The Coastguard Creatives
The Coastguard Creatives

Advertisement

A collective of the works of inspiring craft makers can be found at the Coastguard Cultural Centre, overlooking breath-taking Tramore Bay and online. From handcrafted jewellery to art, woodcraft to ceramics, skincare to leather bags, framed/pebble art to glass décor and homewares, knitwear and batik-printed casualwear, you will find the gifts that inspire and delight.

Copper Coast Skin Care
Click Waterford Copper Coast Skin Care

Based in Dunhill, Co Waterford, Copper Coast Skin Care produces a range of Natural Skincare including Washes, Lotions, Body Butters, Shaving Soap and Facial products, and Home Fragrance products including Reed Diffusers and Soy Wax Candles. All of the products are hand poured in small batches using natural ingredients, so you and your skin benefit from their unique qualities. Beautiful gift sets are also available which can be sent direct to the lucky recipient. All products are certified under EU regulations and are Paraben and SLS free, fragranced using Essential oils.

Click Waterford Mireog

Mireog

Mireog is a design company with a range of Irish & Celtic language t-shirts and stationery. Setup by artists Shona Shirley Macdonald and Ciarán Ó Nualláin, they take inspiration from the Irish language, folklore and natural world to create bold artistic designs, in the heart of the Deise Gaeltacht in County Waterford. The beautiful creations are produced as sustainably as possible, printing onto 100% organic cotton Earth Positive t-shirts which are manufactured in a wind and solar powered facility, and 100% recycled paper stationary.

Moonwood
Click Waterford Moonwood

Advertisement

In her Waterford workshop, Sally Barry handcrafts distinct wooden jewellery using native Irish woods, 16 in total…all of which have a story to tell! Sally creates wooden jewellery with a Spiritual and Mindful energy, using several indigenous Irish woods celebrating the beauty of our nature. These timeless pieces have Healing and Organic elements that root us to our ancient origins, celebrating the beauty of our nature while connecting us to the essence of our ancient past. The Druids believed the trees had different energies such as strength, protection and healing and these properties are more relevant than ever now as we live through these testing times.

Click Waterford Pippa Sweeney Designs

Pippa Sweeney Designs

The mountains and seashores near her home in County Waterford are the inspiration for Pippa Sweeney’s designs. All of these fuel Pippa’s imagination and along with family life, inspire her unique felt art and her LOVE LUCK & LITTLE WISHES gift range. Now sold internationally, these archive-quality felt art prints and celebration gifts capture memories we love, enjoy and want to share. Creator of the award-winning children’s book ‘Words Get Knotted’, Pippa is a member of DCCI, Felt makers Ireland and has exhibited her felt art both in Ireland and abroad

The Lismore Food Company
Click Waterford The Lismore Food Company 

The Lismore Food Company is situated in the magical town of Lismore, County Waterford where they make the most luxurious food in Ireland.
Lismore Food Company offers an extraordinary selection of sweet and savoury delicacies, delicious drinks and exceptional Hat-Box Hampers. While still a young company, their delicious artisanal products and beautifully designed packaging has ensured that The Lismore Food Company is well on its way to becoming an international brand, synonymous with luxury.
Celebrate the wonder of every moment with a selection of epicurean delights from The Lismore Food Company, available to order online and at select locations in Ireland and around the globe.

The Sea Gardener
Click Waterford The Sea Gardener

The Sea Gardener, aka Marie Power, is a seaweed forager and producer of a range of innovative, award-winning seaweed snacks. Her mission is to share her love of food and nature and to make seaweed easy to use in everyday cooking. Marie grew up on the Copper Coast and leads forages and rocky shore safaris from March to October. Her extensive range includes seaweed cookery kit, seaweed blends, protein bars, The Sea Garden Book – A guide to seaweed foraging and cookery and new for 2020, The Super Seaweed Hamper, with everything you need to get cooking with seaweed - recipes, blends, dilisk, carrageen and green tea with seaweed.

Trish’s Honey Products
Click Waterford Trish’s Honey Products

Trish O’ Neill is an honest-to-goodness Irish female Beekeeper, who comes from a long line of beekeepers. She is a third-generation beekeeper who first found her love for bees while spending time with her grandparents during the summer holidays. It is from them she learned her trade. Trish Honey Products offers a wide range of organic Skincare products including Organic Facial Balm, Organic Body Balm, and hand creams, along with so much more. The BEE-KIND organic skincare range is handmade in Waterford using natural ingredients of beeswax and honey blended with organic plant-based oils and butters to create luxurious organic skincare.

Click Waterford Urban Aran Knitwear 

Urban Aran Knitwear 

Urban Aran Knitwear is a brand that while steeped in the heritage of Ireland reflects a fresh contemporary yet eclectic styling through its innovative use of Aran stitches and colour with urban appeal. Urban Aran founder, Christine Murphy has always been fascinated by the beautiful colour and texture of the Irish city and streetscapes. Colour palettes are vibrant, eclectic, and bursting with explosions of colour, inspired by city walls, palettes of cool greys, sandy beiges and warm blues combined with shocks of colour for dramatic effect. These collections are loved by women who embrace natural fibres, luxury hand crafted yarns, colour and texture.

Whole Living Nutrition
Click Waterford Whole Living Nutrition

When it comes to good food, Leanne Walsh’s philosophy is quite simple…Eat whole nutrient dense food and while what you eat is important, how you digest what you eat is even more important. With no thermal processing you get 100% of the nutritious vitamins, minerals, and enzymes of each juice. The juices contain no pulp providing the body with easy access to nutrition and an instantaneous boost. Choose from 3 different types of cold-pressed juice blends containing fruit and vegetables, the Revitalizer, Yin-Yang and Green Ener-Chi.

Art by Carmel

Drawing with light, the very definition of Photography, aptly describes Carmel Kickers’ desire to capture what she sees through the lens.  Inspired by nature her images are shaped by experience and framed by her own unique view. Fascinated by nature, Carmel’s images are framed by her interpretation and echoes human sensuality.

Coffee House Lane

Coffee House Lane, Waterford City’s only coffee roasters, are steeped in the tradition of coffee roasting.

Having recently launched the Hamper Collection in 2020 to banish the lockdown blues, the large hamper contains an Aeropress coffee maker, and a little bit of everything, while the small hamper, “Greenway Hamper” celebrates the unique Greenway Blend

With a wide selection of hampers and a variety of coffee and coffee making equipment Coffee House Lane has the coffee aficionado in your life covered.

Blackwater Distillery

Founded by Peter Mulryan in 2014, Blackwater Distillery is Ireland's most innovative micro-distillery and the first in the south-east county of Waterford for 174 years and produces multi-awarding winning Blackwater No 5 London Dry Gin, Blackwater Wexford Strawberry  Gin, Blackwater Juniper Cask Gin, Blackwater Pot Still Vodka and Velvet Cap Whiskey.

Blackwater Distillery started Ireland's first-ever spirits subscription club called the 'Blackwater Tasters' enabling club members the opportunity to receive a box of two limited edition spirits to their door every 8 weeks.

Di Fenza Designs

Camel Di Fenza creates beautiful handmade copper and sterling silver jewellery. Geometric shapes and forms influence Carmel’s collections.  Her inspiration is eclectic, finding her creativeness in nature, architecture and even infrastructure.

 

Gene O’ Shea

A native of Waterford, Gene is a talented Irish Designer specialising in quality, handmade pure silver jewellery.

Gene’s unique collection of pure silver jewellery pieces is inspired by his passion for creativity in creating his own pieces.  The medium of Pure Silver allows Gene to breathe new life into his designs and create a unique collection of Irish inspired contemporary jewellery.

Humble Bee Wraps

Brighten up any lunchbox or kitchen with colourful beeswax wraps! Handcrafted in Waterford, Humble Bee Wraps are a natural alternative to clingfilm and will last for up to one year. Using beeswax wraps helps to reduce the impact of plastic on the environment.

Use them to wrap cheese, sandwiches, bread, fruit, and vegetables and to cover bowls of all sizes. Available in single or multi-packs, Humble Bee Wraps are the perfect 'useful' gift for the person who is hard to buy for!

Jayné Cahill Design

Jayné is a graphic designer based in Dunmore East.  During the first COVID-19 lockdown Jayné started making face masks - with a difference!  Jayné's masks are 100% cotton and handmade from high quality fabrics.  They are structured to allow space to breathe and, if you wear glasses, they stop them fogging up!

They come in five sizes including a "Beardy Man" version!

Liams Bakes

Liam O’ Flynn is a fifth-year student from Ardscoil Na Mara in Tramore, Co. Waterford.  Liam’s company started in Transition Year when he took part in the Student Enterprise Programme.  His in

spiration and love of baking came from his Granny at the age of 5, as he spent many an afternoon baking apple tarts, scones, and biscuits in his Granny’s kitchen.

Turning his hobby and passion into a business, ‘Liams Bakes’ was born, and he now bakes a tasty range of large to small cakes from his HSE approved kitchen based in Dunhill.

Mad Jessie

Mad Jessie is a Waterford-based sustainable outdoor wear brand creating unique, fun, wearable art products designed to last, allowing people to embrace a confident and fun life.

 

At Mad Jessie their goal is to support and celebrate people through hand-drawn, colourful and unique fun products to make you feel great about who you are.

Nutrilicious Food Co

Nutrilicious Food Co is an Irish company founded in Dungarvan by husband and wife duo Brian and Yvonne Dillon.   In 2017 both ready to commence a new chapter in their lives with their 2 young boys they decided to start their own food business producing food made with ingredients which nourish from the inside out.

Nutrilicious Food Co is all about keeping it real!  Real treats made by real people with a goal to change how we feel from the inside out.  Free from gluten, dairy, refined sugar, and nasty preservatives, naturally high in protein and fibre these handmade, raw, plant-based treats are the best kind of indulgence – guilt-free!!

W.D. O’Connell Whiskey Merchants

O'Connell Whiskey Merchants are independent bottlers of whiskey who source premium mature stocks from various distilleries in Ireland and beyond. They then apply their own maturation or cask finishing preferences and hand select single casks for small batch and limited-edition releases meaning no two bottlings will ever be the same.

This makes them the ideal gift for Christmas or any special occasion.

My Keto

My Keto is a distinctive keto snack company and is also Ireland’s first. My Keto not only brings you keto snacks but to also brings you natural ones.

My Keto is a low carb/ketogenic snack company providing treats like brownies, flapjacks, protein bars etc. All products are refined sugar free, gluten free and made using only natural ingredients with only 1-2g net carbs per snack.

Viking Irish Drinks

Viking Irish Drinks derives from the area of its orchards in the Barony of Gaultier, East Waterford near the estuary of the Three Sister's rivers, the Barrow, the Nore and the Suir.

Viking Irish Drinks was created by entrepreneur David Dennison and when the first cider was bottled, the flag ship Viking Irish medium dry Cider was born.  It was soon followed by the immensely popular Viking Irish Harvest Blush, and to cap the current selection, Ireland's first Hop flavoured cider, Hop it.

Wild Oats Natural Skincare

Inspired by natural ingredients and pure scent, Wild Oats is passionate about Natural Skincare and creating beautiful products that are wonderful for the skin as well as indulging the senses.

Harnessing the natural bounty from the surrounding  mountains, hedgerows and fields , Wild Oats Natural Skincare combines rich plant based ingredients with the wonderfully beneficial properties of organic Waterford oats to create gorgeously scented, luxurious skincare products, that are as kind to nature as they are to your skin.

Ardmore Pottery & Gallery

Ardmore Pottery and Gallery is a craft shop, working pottery studio and a gallery all rolled into one. The shop stocks the best of Irish made craft and design – from jewellery, to knitwear to paintings and prints – representing over 150 different makers and artists from all over the country.

The shop also houses a pottery studio where the Ardmore Pottery range is created. In November 2020 Ardmore Pottery launched an online shop, so now if you can’t make it to Ardmore - you can still browse, keep track of what is newly arrived and hopefully find something special.

Anchor Spirits

Housed in an historic building at 33, The Mall, Waterford Anchor Spirits is a local boutique spirits company founded by Timmy Ryan and Nichola Beresford.

In the last five years it has quietly amassed over two dozen national and international awards for their three main products which  started with just Muldoon Irish Whiskey Liqueur and has grown to include Thin Gin, Spike Island Spiced Rum, Thin Gin Pink along with some private label brands.  Each of the awards has been for taste and quality and Thin Gin is the only Irish Gin to hold three consecutive medals from the IWA awards.

Monkey Cups

Monkey Cups barista standard borosilicate glass reusable cups and stainless steel doubled walled Monkey Bottles are designed to help to turn the tide on single-use disposable cups and plastic bottles by developing a range of colourful and stylish reusable alternatives.

Check out the Create Your Own Monkey Cup feature on website and design a unique gift for family or friends to suit their personality, style, or team.

Polly and Andy

Polly & Andy design and produce super soft and comfy bamboo socks, in Cheekpoint in Co. Waterford. Bamboo is super soft, smooth and feels great against the skin. It naturally draws moisture away from the body keeping the skin cool and dry. Bamboo is sustainably grown meaning it needs less water to grow than cotton, does not need chemicals to grow and doesn’t need to be replanted as it regrows like a grass.

Another well received addition to our bamboo socks is they have a seam free toe, so no annoying lumps or bumps and the feedback has been incredible.

CLICK WATERFORD food craft design

Where To Find Local Enterprise Office Waterford

Advertisement