{"id":477544,"date":"2026-05-10T09:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477544\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:38:14","slug":"mary-osullivan-meets-kasha-connolly-of-hazel-mountain-chocolate-in-the-burren-for-my-favourite-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477544\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary O&#8217;Sullivan meets Kasha Connolly of Hazel Mountain Chocolate in the Burren for my favourite room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nKasha Connolly is co-director of the innovative Hazel Mountain Chocolate factory, visitor centre and cafe in the spectacular Oughtmama mountain area of the Burren, and she\u2019s fortunate to live in a green-roofed contemporary home minutes away from her work\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Co-director of Hazel Mountain Chocolate, Kasha Connolly outside her home in the Burren, Co Clare. The green roof is an outstanding feature. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SHA CONNOLLY ROOM 7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Co-director of Hazel Mountain Chocolate, Kasha Connolly outside her home in the Burren, Co Clare. The green roof is an outstanding feature. Photo: Tony Gavin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of the nicest elements of travelling around Ireland these days, even in the remotest of areas, is the multitude of fabulous cafes where a visitor to the area can be sure of a nice ambiance, a great cup of coffee and delicious cakes. Burren Cafe at Hazel Mountain Chocolate in Co Clare is one such place, however, there\u2019s a lot more than is usual on offer at this superb destination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As well as the cafe, which is set in the 1950s cottage of co-owner John Connolly\u2019s grandparents, there\u2019s a chocolate factory, which produces superb award-winning chocolate; it\u2019s one of only a handful of bean-to-bar creators in the Republic of Ireland using sustainably grown cocoa beans \u2013 they come from small producers, mainly from Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kasha Connolly is co-director of the innovative Hazel Mountain Chocolate factory, visitor centre and cafe in the spectacular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,48305,17,4746,4850,51180],"class_list":["post-477544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ikea","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-mary-osullivan","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}