James Nesbitt's Ireland (2013) s01e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
"1,000 miles of stunning coastline winds its way round a rugged, emerald green landscape .
.
steeped in history, culture .
.
and characters.
" "I'm James Nesbitt and I'm treating you to a guided tour around some of the most stunning sights" It was just a marvellous, life-enhancing experience.
".
.
sounds and tastes" Cheers.
".
.
that have made this country famous the world over.
" This is a country with heart and with soul.
"Join me on a thrilling adventure through this rich Irish landscape.
" I know what you're thinking.
Who needs a Caribbean beach when you can have all this? Miles of white sand and crystal clear waters.
This stretch of coast was once cited as one of the most beautiful places on Earth by National Geographic.
The water might be a bit chilly, the sun may not always be shining, but the warmth of the Irish people will give you just as good a time.
And you'll even find a palm tree or two.
"This week, we head down to the magical south west of Ireland, where we visit the very public side" It's one of those thing you have to do when you visit Ireland.
You have to kiss the Blarney Stone.
".
.
and the very private side of two stunning ancestral homes.
" "And I find my inner child when I get the chance to invent my perfect flavour of ice cream.
" More? Or do you think we're there? I actually think a little bit more.
Yeah, OK.
Truthfully.
"First though, we cruise down the stunning coastline of this corner of Ireland, to discover more about a small town with big characters and where life is most definitely for living.
" "The tiny town of Dingle has remained a top holiday destination for years.
And you only need to spend a little time here to see why.
" "With its charming shops, bars and restaurants, Dingle is well-placed to cater for the one million-plus visitors who flock here each year.
And, unsurprisingly, some never leave, like American-born brothers Sean and Kieran Murphy.
" It's very safe.
You've got the sea, you've got the mountains, And certainly looking at it, there'd be almost no place we'd rather raise children than here in Dingle.
We all fall down! "Enchanted by the town almost 12 years ago, the brothers upped sticks from the bustling New York suburbs and settled on these shores to raise their family.
" It didn't take a huge amount to push me over the edge to move to such a beautiful place.
"They now make and sell their very own ice cream.
" This is honeycomb and vanilla.
I hope we're a big part of people's holiday.
I hope we're a central part of their holiday.
We've watched people who come to Dingle a lot, we've watched their families grow up.
They come and they're in Dingle and it's part of their experience.
"I wanted to find out a little more about these brothers and their story, so managed to catch up with Kieran, down at the beach, collecting one of his more unusual ingredients.
" Kieran, good to meet you.
Hi.
Welcome to Dingle.
Ah, thank you very much.
So, you work here and are well-known for your ice cream.
That's right.
My brother and I started Murphy's Ice Cream 12 years ago now and we've been working away at it ever since.
Had ice cream been in the family before? It had never been.
We always loved our food but we never had any background in it, but we just started making batches and, eventually, got good at it.
But if ice cream is your trade, why are we here by the sea? We're going to collect one of our ingredients I really like to use.
We make our own salt and we use Dingle seawater to do so.
You make your own salt? We do, yeah.
We were making a sea salt ice cream flavour and I wanted the taste of the sea.
Maybe that emotional thing that happens when you jump out, you've got that taste on your lips after you've been in the sea.
Absolutely.
Just that little taste of the sea and somehow, just putting salt in the ice cream wasn't doing it.
So we started saying, what if we actually sea water? Sea water wasn't great, but we then made salt from the sea water and we came up with something really special.
Great.
Well, take me to it.
OK.
Let's go.
What other local ingredients? Do you source everything from here? Not everything, but some things, we do.
Especially our milk, which comes from the Kerry cow, which is an indigenous breed, probably the oldest breed in Ireland.
They go back, I don't know, 5,000 years.
They almost went extinct in the '80s.
The Kerry cow was? Yeah, there was as few as 100 left, which is critical.
It's absolutely critical, and at the moment now, there's 1,000 of them.
To put into perspective, there's 2,500 pandas in the world and they're considered extremely endangered.
My goodness.
So it's something really special, I think.
And the cream also, and the milk, it's just so rich and so tasty.
Well, shall we collect some water? Yeah.
Do you want to do the honours? I'd love to.
OK.
Just take this bucket and get some water.
Even I can do this.
"Well, it all seems remarkably straightforward so far.
" Is that good? Thank you.
Pleasure.
Is that too much? No, it's a great amount.
OK.
OK, great.
We'll go and make this into salt.
How exciting.
"Later in the programme, Kieran lets me loose in his kitchen, where I get to invent my own Nesbitt inspired flavoured ice cream.
" Ah, hello.
Hi.
"Drifting away from the stunning coastline, and our adventure takes us deep into the County Cork countryside, where we visit another family who've made a transatlantic leap back to their Irish roots.
" "In 2004, Justin and Jenny Green took the plunge and returned from careers overseas to Ballyvolane, this beautiful country house.
" "Justin's parents ran it as a dairy farm before turning it into a fishing retreat come hotel.
" "When his mother died, Justin decided to bring his own family back to take on the running of the business.
" We have this glorious country house, as you can see, and we run it as a guesthouse.
So we do weddings, we have house guests, we do Christenings, group lunches, fishing.
Ballyvolane is a beautiful place to live.
It's got stunning countryside, the trees are amazing and the gardens are pretty special.
"Now they live here with the guests living alongside their children.
Sweet, aren't they?" It's not really a hotel, it's much more a home that we have guests in.
"Balancing family life and running a business is a struggle a lot of people face.
But it doesn't seem so hard when the setting is like this.
" At the moment, we're in late summer, so the apples are out at the moment.
"It's a labour of love for Justin and his wife Jenny, and the rest of the clan too.
As well as children Jamie, Toby and Fleur" School time.
It's so funny seeing her in her uniform because she's only just started school.
I'm not used to it.
She looks so cute.
".
.
there's also Justin's dad Jeremy" Dad, can I have another coffee? ".
.
and Justin's granny comes too.
" "That's 102-year-old Joyce.
" Good morning.
I think what's really special for my children is the fact that we live here with their grandfather and their great grandparents.
I think it's you know, it's more common in Ireland and it's just a really It's a lovely way to live.
"I'm not sure there are many places in Ireland you can stay and meet four generations of the same family.
" We do have a very strong emotional attachment to the house and we get a great kick out of seeing it in good nick.
And also, these houses really purr when they're full of people enjoying themselves.
They were designed for lavish entertaining, so what we do really works.
Between the children and work, it's all quite full-on.
But I love the location of where we are, it's beautiful.
"Just a stone's throw from the Blackwater River, the house has been welcoming fishermen and women for over 30 years.
All in the pursuit of Irish salmon.
"Regulars to the hotel are fly-fishing enthusiasts Robert and Elizabeth.
" Ballyvolane is absolutely lovely.
It's so relaxed and peaceful and they look after you in such a sort of gentle way.
It's wonderful.
Hello, Robert and Elizabeth.
How are you? How did you get on today? Any luck? We have people from all over the world stay and they bring their children and my kids are hanging out with their kids and it's like having a sleep over nearly every day of the summer.
"Although it looks like Justin and Jenny are living the good life, the hard work in keeping this place running is obvious.
" "And that includes growing food for the guests to eat.
" We have lots of different varieties of apple, pear, plums.
We have, you know, four different kinds of potatoes.
We grow several different kind of lettuce leaves.
We have spinach, chard, cabbage.
"Sometimes though, the homegrown goodies aren't too willing to be breakfast just yet.
" Here, piggy, piggy, piggy.
"Well, even pigs know when they're onto a good thing.
" There are more beautiful places to see after the break.
Welcome back.
There's nothing so enjoyable as fresh air, good food and fine company.
That's you, by the way.
So kick back, relax and tuck in.
"Just outside the city of Cork sits the famous Blarney Castle.
" Welcome to Blarney Castle.
It's great to have you here.
This is your first view, really, of your approach to the castle.
Through the archway there, up the stairs and enjoy every moment of it.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
It's one of those things you have to do when you visit Ireland.
You have to kiss the Blarney Stone.
"Legend states that the king of the 600-year-old Blarney Castle saved a woman from drowning in a lake on the estate.
"This mysterious lady turned out to be a witch, who told the king that if he was to kiss the stone embedded in the castle walls, he would be granted the gift of eloquence.
" Head back, let your body drift downwards.
Forward and kiss.
Forward and kiss.
Easy, and back to me.
Up to my hand and off you come.
Have a good day.
"But what the thousands of tourists who visit the castle every year don't realise is that they are, essentially, traipsing all over someone's back garden.
And he doesn't mind a bit.
" "Sir Charles Colthurst grew up on the 60-acre estate and still lives in beautiful Blarney House, just next door to the castle.
" My father's half-sister lived in the house that we're sitting in and as children, we were here in the holidays.
So we had the whole place to ourselves, fields and woods and the lake.
We grew up with the sort of mystique of the place.
"Running an estate the size of Blarney requires an army of workers.
Paul O'Sullivan is one such key member of staff, whose job it is to keep the attraction running.
" I am really lucky to work in a place that's famous the world over.
We average around 320,000 people a year.
When the cruise ships dock in to Cork, it can get pretty manic here.
It's pretty crazy.
Generally, the queues are at their longest when they're here.
"On their busiest day, the castle can welcome up to 4,000 visitors.
That's a lot of kissing.
" Down there? Today, we have a basketball team from Philadelphia coming.
It's a group of 45, so it's a rather large group.
So it's going to make doing the tour quite tricky.
I'm George.
Nice to meet you.
It's forecast for some thunder downpours around four o'clock.
So this could throw up a number of challenges, but they're the kind of things you have to deal with when you're doing a tour group.
"With 45 young ladies to get successfully to the top Walking up all those steps, I mean, you've got to kiss it.
".
.
it's up to Paul to prove that this stone-kissing is a piece of cake.
" I kind of made an agreement with one of the girls that I would kiss the stone first, just to To prove.
.
.
prove and ease the nerves.
Oh, yeah.
OK.
Now Well played.
Now we'll all do it.
"With the gift of the gab safely bestowed upon the whole team, Paul's job is done.
" "And he'll be doing it all over again tomorrow.
" "For the tourists visiting the pretty Dingle peninsular, there is so much to see, and it's only right and fitting that I turn my hand to dreaming up a new delicacy for them all to taste.
" "With our saltwater collected from the sea, Kieran Murphy has promised to show me how he turns this into an ice cream flavour.
" This is where the magic happens.
Yeah, this is our little production lab here.
What we're going to do is filter out the sea water before boiling it down, just to make sure that there's no little bits of sea weed or sand.
Right.
So we'll just strain that quickly.
And then we'll just start that cooking on the stove.
"Now, I'm sure their sea salt flavour is great but I'm not one to miss an opportunity.
And with his kitchen laid out before and a master ice cream maker on hand, I have a bigger flavour of my own I want to try.
" Clove Clove rock - Yeah? Was my mother's favourite sweet, and I have very fond memories of clove rock, and butterscotch.
So do you think that this can work? If you have a memory or if there's a basis for it, we can then try to, hopefully, create a flavour that maybe brings back a little emotion.
If we can, then I think it's a successful flavour.
Otherwise, it's just cloves.
Anything that brings back the memory of clove rock and my mother would make me very happy.
Excellent, let's try.
OK.
"Kieran hasn't run a mile yet, so maybe I'm onto something.
Time to make some magic happen.
" "First in, and it's the special Kerry cow cream.
" "Next up is the main ingredient, cloves.
" They take some hammering, cloves, don't they? Yeah.
One of the things that I believe very deeply is that if you're trying to make clove ice cream, you just use clove.
I know that sounds stupid, but it's amazing how people try to complicate things, you know? So if we're going to make a flavour, we will just use the thing.
Oh, yeah.
All the flavour.
Again, this is just the ground cloves and the water.
Yeah.
We'll just put a spoon in.
We'll give it a minute and see how we get on.
How many flavours do you have in your shop then? We always have 16, but over the years, we've made hundreds.
Funnily enough, as we get more and more established, it's harder and harder to switch them, because people get very attached to flavours.
"A bit of sugar, some special cream and cloves.
Time to check out the result.
" Now you get that bit of clove numbing thing going on.
Huh? It's really lovely.
More? Or do you think we're there? I actually think a little bit more.
Yeah, OK.
Truthfully.
I hope this is going to be in the shop.
If this is a success, would you have it as a flavour? Yeah, of course.
You know, why not? Let's pull it.
OK, so, this is our ice cream, then.
It comes out quite soft and we'll put it in the freezer and it'll be nice and hard soon enough.
"Now, what to call this heavenly flavour?" Nesbitts And Pieces.
Nesbitts And Pieces.
Nesbitts And Pieces.
OK.
That's it.
Brilliant.
Let's go.
OK.
OK.
So, this is the famous clove.
There it is.
Yeah.
And I'll give you a taste of it first.
OK.
See what you think, because now it's much colder, it's much harder from when it came out of the machine.
It's very good! It's exactly what I was hoping to achieve.
Good.
It brings back childhood memories.
It brings back my mum.
I love it.
Excellent.
Should we do some market research and see what the public thinks? But isn't it enough that I love it? OK, we'll do that.
You'll buy all of it, of course.
But let's see, let's see.
I think so, I think we've hit something with this flavour.
"No, Kieran is right, it's not all about me, so time to hit the mean streets of Dingle.
" Good luck.
Let's hope they're drunk.
Right.
Hello, do you like ice cream? I'd say so.
Yeah.
This is a new flavour we're trying out.
It is cloves and butterscotch sauce.
Would you like to try a bit? Yeah.
You can be brutally honest.
Good, very good.
First taste is weird but it's good.
Uh-oh.
It's really good.
You think? Really good.
I've never had cloves.
It's amazing.
Isn't is amazing.
Like Christmas.
It's like Christmas! You see, he said it needs to have an emotional response.
It's like Christmas.
I'm going to make a fortune.
"I knew the ladies would love it.
" OK, we'll put it up on the board and make it official.
Ah, perfect.
My mother will be delighted.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for coming to us.
I'm a captain of industry.
"I leave Dingle safe in the knowledge that Nesbitt And Pieces is a hit and will possibly become something of a legend in town.
" "The south west coast is a magical place to visit.
" "Whether it's the myth and mystery of Blarney .
.
or the simple beauty of the Blackwater River .
.
this part of Ireland is a spot not to be missed.
" See you next time for a bit more exploring round Ireland.
.
steeped in history, culture .
.
and characters.
" "I'm James Nesbitt and I'm treating you to a guided tour around some of the most stunning sights" It was just a marvellous, life-enhancing experience.
".
.
sounds and tastes" Cheers.
".
.
that have made this country famous the world over.
" This is a country with heart and with soul.
"Join me on a thrilling adventure through this rich Irish landscape.
" I know what you're thinking.
Who needs a Caribbean beach when you can have all this? Miles of white sand and crystal clear waters.
This stretch of coast was once cited as one of the most beautiful places on Earth by National Geographic.
The water might be a bit chilly, the sun may not always be shining, but the warmth of the Irish people will give you just as good a time.
And you'll even find a palm tree or two.
"This week, we head down to the magical south west of Ireland, where we visit the very public side" It's one of those thing you have to do when you visit Ireland.
You have to kiss the Blarney Stone.
".
.
and the very private side of two stunning ancestral homes.
" "And I find my inner child when I get the chance to invent my perfect flavour of ice cream.
" More? Or do you think we're there? I actually think a little bit more.
Yeah, OK.
Truthfully.
"First though, we cruise down the stunning coastline of this corner of Ireland, to discover more about a small town with big characters and where life is most definitely for living.
" "The tiny town of Dingle has remained a top holiday destination for years.
And you only need to spend a little time here to see why.
" "With its charming shops, bars and restaurants, Dingle is well-placed to cater for the one million-plus visitors who flock here each year.
And, unsurprisingly, some never leave, like American-born brothers Sean and Kieran Murphy.
" It's very safe.
You've got the sea, you've got the mountains, And certainly looking at it, there'd be almost no place we'd rather raise children than here in Dingle.
We all fall down! "Enchanted by the town almost 12 years ago, the brothers upped sticks from the bustling New York suburbs and settled on these shores to raise their family.
" It didn't take a huge amount to push me over the edge to move to such a beautiful place.
"They now make and sell their very own ice cream.
" This is honeycomb and vanilla.
I hope we're a big part of people's holiday.
I hope we're a central part of their holiday.
We've watched people who come to Dingle a lot, we've watched their families grow up.
They come and they're in Dingle and it's part of their experience.
"I wanted to find out a little more about these brothers and their story, so managed to catch up with Kieran, down at the beach, collecting one of his more unusual ingredients.
" Kieran, good to meet you.
Hi.
Welcome to Dingle.
Ah, thank you very much.
So, you work here and are well-known for your ice cream.
That's right.
My brother and I started Murphy's Ice Cream 12 years ago now and we've been working away at it ever since.
Had ice cream been in the family before? It had never been.
We always loved our food but we never had any background in it, but we just started making batches and, eventually, got good at it.
But if ice cream is your trade, why are we here by the sea? We're going to collect one of our ingredients I really like to use.
We make our own salt and we use Dingle seawater to do so.
You make your own salt? We do, yeah.
We were making a sea salt ice cream flavour and I wanted the taste of the sea.
Maybe that emotional thing that happens when you jump out, you've got that taste on your lips after you've been in the sea.
Absolutely.
Just that little taste of the sea and somehow, just putting salt in the ice cream wasn't doing it.
So we started saying, what if we actually sea water? Sea water wasn't great, but we then made salt from the sea water and we came up with something really special.
Great.
Well, take me to it.
OK.
Let's go.
What other local ingredients? Do you source everything from here? Not everything, but some things, we do.
Especially our milk, which comes from the Kerry cow, which is an indigenous breed, probably the oldest breed in Ireland.
They go back, I don't know, 5,000 years.
They almost went extinct in the '80s.
The Kerry cow was? Yeah, there was as few as 100 left, which is critical.
It's absolutely critical, and at the moment now, there's 1,000 of them.
To put into perspective, there's 2,500 pandas in the world and they're considered extremely endangered.
My goodness.
So it's something really special, I think.
And the cream also, and the milk, it's just so rich and so tasty.
Well, shall we collect some water? Yeah.
Do you want to do the honours? I'd love to.
OK.
Just take this bucket and get some water.
Even I can do this.
"Well, it all seems remarkably straightforward so far.
" Is that good? Thank you.
Pleasure.
Is that too much? No, it's a great amount.
OK.
OK, great.
We'll go and make this into salt.
How exciting.
"Later in the programme, Kieran lets me loose in his kitchen, where I get to invent my own Nesbitt inspired flavoured ice cream.
" Ah, hello.
Hi.
"Drifting away from the stunning coastline, and our adventure takes us deep into the County Cork countryside, where we visit another family who've made a transatlantic leap back to their Irish roots.
" "In 2004, Justin and Jenny Green took the plunge and returned from careers overseas to Ballyvolane, this beautiful country house.
" "Justin's parents ran it as a dairy farm before turning it into a fishing retreat come hotel.
" "When his mother died, Justin decided to bring his own family back to take on the running of the business.
" We have this glorious country house, as you can see, and we run it as a guesthouse.
So we do weddings, we have house guests, we do Christenings, group lunches, fishing.
Ballyvolane is a beautiful place to live.
It's got stunning countryside, the trees are amazing and the gardens are pretty special.
"Now they live here with the guests living alongside their children.
Sweet, aren't they?" It's not really a hotel, it's much more a home that we have guests in.
"Balancing family life and running a business is a struggle a lot of people face.
But it doesn't seem so hard when the setting is like this.
" At the moment, we're in late summer, so the apples are out at the moment.
"It's a labour of love for Justin and his wife Jenny, and the rest of the clan too.
As well as children Jamie, Toby and Fleur" School time.
It's so funny seeing her in her uniform because she's only just started school.
I'm not used to it.
She looks so cute.
".
.
there's also Justin's dad Jeremy" Dad, can I have another coffee? ".
.
and Justin's granny comes too.
" "That's 102-year-old Joyce.
" Good morning.
I think what's really special for my children is the fact that we live here with their grandfather and their great grandparents.
I think it's you know, it's more common in Ireland and it's just a really It's a lovely way to live.
"I'm not sure there are many places in Ireland you can stay and meet four generations of the same family.
" We do have a very strong emotional attachment to the house and we get a great kick out of seeing it in good nick.
And also, these houses really purr when they're full of people enjoying themselves.
They were designed for lavish entertaining, so what we do really works.
Between the children and work, it's all quite full-on.
But I love the location of where we are, it's beautiful.
"Just a stone's throw from the Blackwater River, the house has been welcoming fishermen and women for over 30 years.
All in the pursuit of Irish salmon.
"Regulars to the hotel are fly-fishing enthusiasts Robert and Elizabeth.
" Ballyvolane is absolutely lovely.
It's so relaxed and peaceful and they look after you in such a sort of gentle way.
It's wonderful.
Hello, Robert and Elizabeth.
How are you? How did you get on today? Any luck? We have people from all over the world stay and they bring their children and my kids are hanging out with their kids and it's like having a sleep over nearly every day of the summer.
"Although it looks like Justin and Jenny are living the good life, the hard work in keeping this place running is obvious.
" "And that includes growing food for the guests to eat.
" We have lots of different varieties of apple, pear, plums.
We have, you know, four different kinds of potatoes.
We grow several different kind of lettuce leaves.
We have spinach, chard, cabbage.
"Sometimes though, the homegrown goodies aren't too willing to be breakfast just yet.
" Here, piggy, piggy, piggy.
"Well, even pigs know when they're onto a good thing.
" There are more beautiful places to see after the break.
Welcome back.
There's nothing so enjoyable as fresh air, good food and fine company.
That's you, by the way.
So kick back, relax and tuck in.
"Just outside the city of Cork sits the famous Blarney Castle.
" Welcome to Blarney Castle.
It's great to have you here.
This is your first view, really, of your approach to the castle.
Through the archway there, up the stairs and enjoy every moment of it.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
It's one of those things you have to do when you visit Ireland.
You have to kiss the Blarney Stone.
"Legend states that the king of the 600-year-old Blarney Castle saved a woman from drowning in a lake on the estate.
"This mysterious lady turned out to be a witch, who told the king that if he was to kiss the stone embedded in the castle walls, he would be granted the gift of eloquence.
" Head back, let your body drift downwards.
Forward and kiss.
Forward and kiss.
Easy, and back to me.
Up to my hand and off you come.
Have a good day.
"But what the thousands of tourists who visit the castle every year don't realise is that they are, essentially, traipsing all over someone's back garden.
And he doesn't mind a bit.
" "Sir Charles Colthurst grew up on the 60-acre estate and still lives in beautiful Blarney House, just next door to the castle.
" My father's half-sister lived in the house that we're sitting in and as children, we were here in the holidays.
So we had the whole place to ourselves, fields and woods and the lake.
We grew up with the sort of mystique of the place.
"Running an estate the size of Blarney requires an army of workers.
Paul O'Sullivan is one such key member of staff, whose job it is to keep the attraction running.
" I am really lucky to work in a place that's famous the world over.
We average around 320,000 people a year.
When the cruise ships dock in to Cork, it can get pretty manic here.
It's pretty crazy.
Generally, the queues are at their longest when they're here.
"On their busiest day, the castle can welcome up to 4,000 visitors.
That's a lot of kissing.
" Down there? Today, we have a basketball team from Philadelphia coming.
It's a group of 45, so it's a rather large group.
So it's going to make doing the tour quite tricky.
I'm George.
Nice to meet you.
It's forecast for some thunder downpours around four o'clock.
So this could throw up a number of challenges, but they're the kind of things you have to deal with when you're doing a tour group.
"With 45 young ladies to get successfully to the top Walking up all those steps, I mean, you've got to kiss it.
".
.
it's up to Paul to prove that this stone-kissing is a piece of cake.
" I kind of made an agreement with one of the girls that I would kiss the stone first, just to To prove.
.
.
prove and ease the nerves.
Oh, yeah.
OK.
Now Well played.
Now we'll all do it.
"With the gift of the gab safely bestowed upon the whole team, Paul's job is done.
" "And he'll be doing it all over again tomorrow.
" "For the tourists visiting the pretty Dingle peninsular, there is so much to see, and it's only right and fitting that I turn my hand to dreaming up a new delicacy for them all to taste.
" "With our saltwater collected from the sea, Kieran Murphy has promised to show me how he turns this into an ice cream flavour.
" This is where the magic happens.
Yeah, this is our little production lab here.
What we're going to do is filter out the sea water before boiling it down, just to make sure that there's no little bits of sea weed or sand.
Right.
So we'll just strain that quickly.
And then we'll just start that cooking on the stove.
"Now, I'm sure their sea salt flavour is great but I'm not one to miss an opportunity.
And with his kitchen laid out before and a master ice cream maker on hand, I have a bigger flavour of my own I want to try.
" Clove Clove rock - Yeah? Was my mother's favourite sweet, and I have very fond memories of clove rock, and butterscotch.
So do you think that this can work? If you have a memory or if there's a basis for it, we can then try to, hopefully, create a flavour that maybe brings back a little emotion.
If we can, then I think it's a successful flavour.
Otherwise, it's just cloves.
Anything that brings back the memory of clove rock and my mother would make me very happy.
Excellent, let's try.
OK.
"Kieran hasn't run a mile yet, so maybe I'm onto something.
Time to make some magic happen.
" "First in, and it's the special Kerry cow cream.
" "Next up is the main ingredient, cloves.
" They take some hammering, cloves, don't they? Yeah.
One of the things that I believe very deeply is that if you're trying to make clove ice cream, you just use clove.
I know that sounds stupid, but it's amazing how people try to complicate things, you know? So if we're going to make a flavour, we will just use the thing.
Oh, yeah.
All the flavour.
Again, this is just the ground cloves and the water.
Yeah.
We'll just put a spoon in.
We'll give it a minute and see how we get on.
How many flavours do you have in your shop then? We always have 16, but over the years, we've made hundreds.
Funnily enough, as we get more and more established, it's harder and harder to switch them, because people get very attached to flavours.
"A bit of sugar, some special cream and cloves.
Time to check out the result.
" Now you get that bit of clove numbing thing going on.
Huh? It's really lovely.
More? Or do you think we're there? I actually think a little bit more.
Yeah, OK.
Truthfully.
I hope this is going to be in the shop.
If this is a success, would you have it as a flavour? Yeah, of course.
You know, why not? Let's pull it.
OK, so, this is our ice cream, then.
It comes out quite soft and we'll put it in the freezer and it'll be nice and hard soon enough.
"Now, what to call this heavenly flavour?" Nesbitts And Pieces.
Nesbitts And Pieces.
Nesbitts And Pieces.
OK.
That's it.
Brilliant.
Let's go.
OK.
OK.
So, this is the famous clove.
There it is.
Yeah.
And I'll give you a taste of it first.
OK.
See what you think, because now it's much colder, it's much harder from when it came out of the machine.
It's very good! It's exactly what I was hoping to achieve.
Good.
It brings back childhood memories.
It brings back my mum.
I love it.
Excellent.
Should we do some market research and see what the public thinks? But isn't it enough that I love it? OK, we'll do that.
You'll buy all of it, of course.
But let's see, let's see.
I think so, I think we've hit something with this flavour.
"No, Kieran is right, it's not all about me, so time to hit the mean streets of Dingle.
" Good luck.
Let's hope they're drunk.
Right.
Hello, do you like ice cream? I'd say so.
Yeah.
This is a new flavour we're trying out.
It is cloves and butterscotch sauce.
Would you like to try a bit? Yeah.
You can be brutally honest.
Good, very good.
First taste is weird but it's good.
Uh-oh.
It's really good.
You think? Really good.
I've never had cloves.
It's amazing.
Isn't is amazing.
Like Christmas.
It's like Christmas! You see, he said it needs to have an emotional response.
It's like Christmas.
I'm going to make a fortune.
"I knew the ladies would love it.
" OK, we'll put it up on the board and make it official.
Ah, perfect.
My mother will be delighted.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for coming to us.
I'm a captain of industry.
"I leave Dingle safe in the knowledge that Nesbitt And Pieces is a hit and will possibly become something of a legend in town.
" "The south west coast is a magical place to visit.
" "Whether it's the myth and mystery of Blarney .
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or the simple beauty of the Blackwater River .
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this part of Ireland is a spot not to be missed.
" See you next time for a bit more exploring round Ireland.