Meet the luxury Irish seaweed brand that is conquering the global market
Mark and Kira Walton, founders of Sligo-based company Voya. Picture: Karen Cox
“You can see Slieve League from here,” says Voya head harvester John Devins as he gestures across the Co Sligo beach on which we’re standing. Sure enough, beyond the white horses of the North Atlantic waves, I can see the Donegal cliffs peeping through the horizon’s haze.
This stretch of seaweed-strewn shoreline is Devins’s office for the afternoon — he swapped bartending for seaweed over a decade ago — and he’s in his element, in every sense, as he whips out his knife to begin hand-harvesting the luxe beauty brand’s star ingredient.
