An award-winning food blogger and writer will return from her adopted home in London to her native Dungarvan next month to help showcase the best of local food and pass on some of her expertise.

The Dungarvan to Clonmel road is closed this afternoon at Colligan due to a car collision.

WORKERS at Dawn Meats and Unite union officials are distributing leaflets at this weekend’s Waterford Food Festival in protest over health, safety and pay issues.

A PARADE of pigs will get the fourth annual Waterford Festival of Food under way today with cooks, experts and foodies set to descend on the region for the weekend.