Finn Ni Fhaolain: Episode 24

The Breifne Earley Show

This week Breifne is joined by environmentalist, marine biologist, surfer, author and baker Finn Ní Fhaoláin to talk about her life long travels and her portfolio career. Growing up as the child of creative parents, moving between Dublin, Donegal, Galway, Monaghan and Sligo before settling in Bundoran, Co. Donegal. After running down a blind alley into her college years from her leaving cert which turned into a gap year, she found her route into the world of marine biology, the joys of learning mathematical theorems in both the English and Irish languages. She talks about hounding businesses for part time jobs, requesting work each and every week until they offered her hours. How she ended up spending months researching corals off the coast of Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean. While stuck on a floating town for her day job, she found both fitness and food which became her first foray into the world of blogging. The joy of this endeavour lead to her first cook book, Finns World, to suit her celiac inspired gluten free requirements. Finn details how a number of world's collided to see her collection of recipes become that book over the course of just over a year. Ní Fhaoláin talks about how applying for and accepting a food course in St. Angela's in Sligo brought her to live in Bundoran, where she managed to continue her love of surfing and the town where she's made her base for the last three years. Finn finishes the hour by talking about the future, her self predicted mid life crisis, her new gluten free bakery "Milish" and what opening her own business means for her future.