Meet the home cooks going viral: ‘I’m just a teacher, I live in a house in the country and I don’t have any fancy notions’When she left teaching after 35 years, a food blog was part of Orla Drumgoole’s retirement plan – but she had no idea how popular Irish Mammy Cooks would become'People think blogging is easy, I'm working longer hours than when I was a teacher'Chrissie Russell Today at 06:30Orla Drumgoole laughs at how it’s always the most innocent recipes that seem to provoke the greatest outrage online.

Source: Irish Independent February 20, 2026 10:03 UTC