Darina Allen: My traditional soda bread, bacon and cabbage, and potato bread recipes

Recipes to celebrate St Patrick's Day

Making a loaf of soda bread is a simple life skill that everyone should know.

Here comes St Patrick’s Day. Traditionally, it was a day to take a break from Lenten fasting, an opportunity to celebrate, maybe even have a drink or two or three!

How many of you in the midst of these crazy times even remember the excitement and the buildup to the feast day of our legendary patron saint who drove all the snakes out of Ireland and showed us the meaning of the Trinity using the little three-leafed shamrock that he found growing at his feet.