Rosscarbery: Delicious in its detail

O’Callaghan Walshe Seafood Restaurant, North Square, Rosscarbery, Co Cork, 023-8848125, ocallaghanwalshe.com, [e-mail]

The restaurant has, in its 22 years, got its share of gongs, passing nods and plaques, but they seem almost peripheral to the job in hand. Picture: Dan Linehan

FILM director David Lean — The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Ryan’s Daughter and many, many more — was notoriously fastidious about detail. Some colleagues suggested he was obsessively, nit-pickingly difficult about the accuracy needed to seem authentic.