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    Beyond Bonane: Buongiorno Buffalo!

    This is my first Blog Post venturing Beyond Bonane, but I hope you will enjoy it all the same! There are probably very, very few television-watching people in this country who haven’t seen Aldi’s genial and entertaining advert starring Johnny Lynch of Macroom Buffalo, Ireland’s first and only herd of milking water buffalo. Johnny went walking through his fields, followed by his buffalo. Astride his cow ‘Black Beauty’, Johnny greeted some random picknickers. Encountering Vespa-riding nuns at his farm gate, Johnny casually called out to them, ‘Ciao, ciao.’ I’m writing about Johnny, his family and Macroom Buffalo today because, as part of the 2018 “A Taste of West Cork Food…