Seaweed is shaping up to be one of the big food stories this year, but so too is the continuing emphasis on health and the increasing need to eat local.

Sensitive situations concerning vulnerable people are being exploited by those “who trade in hatred and fear,'' the Archbishop of Tuam has warned.

The Archbishop of Tuam has commented on the ongoing row over the housing of asylum seekers in Achill and said Christians are morally obliged to welcome the stranger.