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Ireland’s chef of the year Ahmet Dede: ‘I was on the path to professional football in Turkey’
Dede was on the path to becoming a professional footballer when an injury derailed his career. He retrained as a chef in Dublin, and has since been transforming a west Cork village into a renowned culinary destination
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