Freshly returned from a splendid sojourn in Galway where he ate and drank for every single man, woman, and child in Ireland, the City of the Tribes being an especially fine place for putting on the nosebag, The Menu would dearly love to be making a return trip for the Galway Food Festival (running until March 28). 

NUTRITIONAL therapist Karen Ward doesn’t like to dwell on the horror of her Crohn’s disease diagnosis in 2009 and the operation that followed, just two months later, when the right side of her colon was removed.