Ireland’s MasterChef Diana Dodog knows how to put passion on a plate. Diana, 35, originally from Hungary but now living in Courtmacsherry, Co Cork, loves food and to see people enjoying what she serves up.

It wasn’t cooking in one of the finest Michelin-starred restaurants in London, and afterwards in Stockholm — challenges posed in the MasterChef Ireland final — that Tamarin Blackmur found most challenging.

MasterChef judges Dylan McGrath and Nick Munier say forcing restaurants to display calories on menus is a stupid idea and impossible.

NEWLY-crowned Masterchef Ireland champion Mary Carney will turn the tables on her counterparts when she appears at the Savour Kilkenny Food Festival over the October bank holiday weekend.

SHE can cook — and has the apron to prove it — but Ireland’s top amateur chef has no immediate plans to permanently pack in her day job.