Chef Aine Budds: 'I was drinking on my breaks in work - take a break, go to the pub, drink loads of pints and go back. No one batted an eyelid'

In the early days of her career in restaurants, a fellow chef took Áine Budds aside to give her some well-meaning advice. 'You need to make up your mind what you're here for,' he said to her. 'Are you here to party or are you here to be a chef?'

'It was great advice,' Budds tells me when we meet in a cafe in the Dublin docklands. 'But I didn't listen to it at the time. He was dead right. He could see it in me back then. He could see what was going on.'

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