Food news with Joe McNamee

The financial crash of 2008 could never be called a good thing, but one positive that resulted was a number of young Irish people creating their own food and drink businesses.

The Franciscan Well brewpub in Cork city wants to hire a full-time employee to help run its award-winning brewery tours and tastings.

A Cork micro-brewery has scooped six coveted medals at the prestigious World Beer Awards.

A multi-million euro brewing investment has commenced on Cork city’s Marina Park— ironically, in a 50,000 sq ft unit previously used by Beamish and Crawford as a distribution depot.

The Menu is an awful man for dipping into his progeny’s future college fund to blow it all on gastronomic goodies and few spots are more tempting than Urru Culinary Store, in Bandon.

To mark the Irish Craft Beer Festival this weekend, Joe McNamee gets a taste of the local brewing scene.

The drinks industry could refer to it as a type of cross-pollination in a bid to create products which will replace the traditional "chaser".

Despite the summer stretch in the day, The Menu feels nothing short of a turbo-booster for the bould Neidín will enable him to attend every last one of an ever-increasing proliferation of food festivals around this glorious island.

Cork’s Franciscan Well brewery has won two top awards at the prestigious World Beer Awards.

Plans are at an advanced stage to open a new brewery in Cork which will primarily focus on selling high-octane beers to the American market.

One of the country’s top craft brewing houses is toasting another national title.

SEASONED stout drinkers are about to get a taste of the good old days with the launch of a beer steeped in history.

GARDAÍ are to prepare a file for the Cork city coroner after a man who jumped nearly 50ft to escape a blaze in a block of flats died from his injuries.