On a recent trip to Northern Ireland, I was blown away by the explosion of artisan food and drink producers.

Joe McNamee plates up the latest in food news.

The Irish food industry needs to be prepared for Brexit, an awards ceremony honouring the best produce on offer north and south of the border has heard.

ON a cold January evening in Paris in 1938, Samuel Beckett was walking home with some friends after a night on the town when he was accosted and suddenly stabbed by a pimp called Prudent.