The Menu: Foodie awards season in Cork - and a new head chef at Ballynahinch

"A whole load of congratulations and encomiums to be dished out around the parish this week..."

Danni Barry of Ballynahinch Castle Hotel

Succession in Ballynahinch

The Menu has always held a bit of a torch for Ballynahinch Castle Hotel, one of the country’s finest castle hotels, its old-school luxury redolent of a bygone era and all tucked away on a private 700-acre estate in the wonderful wilds of Connemara, in the West of Ireland.