THIS year it wasn’t difficult to find great food gifts for under €10. 

Check out these Hessian baskets, too at €6.99. Each pack contains a small, a medium and a large basket. Available in Aldi stores this week.

Carol O’Callaghan gives some handy hints on homely gifts to take to a party — or to family and friends.

French furniture house of Roche Bobois have just launched their autumn winter collection. 

Irish coffee company Insomnia is set to move into the UK market in a partnership with UK and Irish retail giant Debenhams.

The spend by the Central Bank on third-party legal services last year increased by 23% to €3.2m, or a weekly average spend of €61,538.

Cork entrepreneur Tracey Ryan has added an innovative twist to natural skincare products by producing a range that is made with only edible ingredients.

The founding premises of homewares specialist store, Meadows & Byrne, in Cork City’s Academy Street will only be vacated and leased to restaurant chain, Nando’s, if planning is secured for change-of-use.

Shrink down your beauty routine to meet your luggage limits. Lisa Haynes unveils the minis to suit your case.

The Menu is very honoured to be joining the renowned food writer Lilly Higgins, Bakestone chef/proprietor Ali Honour and Iyer’s Café chef/proprietor, Gautham Iyer, to deliver an exclusive multi-course cooking demo, one course apiece (June 27), in the Brennan’s Cookery School, in Cork, with a healthy sample of each dish for all in the audience.

Springtime is inspiring some fresh and funky styles.

This is award season in the wine trade as much as in the movie business.

IN CASE you haven’t heard the rumour there is talk of duty being increased on wine in the budget once again this year so I, for one, am beginning to stock up.

IRISH wine consumers like familiarity and consistency in their wines and it is largely for this reason that over 50% of the wine we drink is from Australia or Chile and almost all of that is from grapes such as Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc.

Every week Esther N McCarthy scouts around for interesting pieces for your interiors. Today she discovers pretty piggies and divine dressers.

Each week Esther N McCarthy scouts around for interesting pieces for your interiors. This week she discovers hot pink craft and baby pink shoes.

Add a little flutter to your walls with the butterfly box art trio, €23.50 from Littlewoods.

IN the final run-in to Christmas, business is booming at the Blue Haven Food Company as last-minute orders are readied for supermarket shelves around the country.

LUXURY restaurant, food hall and wine cellar Fallon & Byrne saw profits increase significantly last year.

PRE-TAX profits at up-market eatery, Fallon & Byrne plunged 96% to €8,791 last year.

TWO solicitors have been awarded €80,000 damages and costs by a High Court jury after it found they were libelled by the showing of their practice’s letterhead during an RTÉ Prime Time programme on bogus and exaggerated compensation claims.

Byrne’s Bookstores has capitalised on the international market emerging in Ireland with Valentine’s Day cards saying “I love you” in many languages in store.

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HIGH-RISE, winner of the 1998 Derby, has returned to the country of his birth to continue his stud career at Paddy Byrne’s Park House Stud in Tullow, Carlow.

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IRISH coach Eddie O'Sullivan has announced a squad of 51 players to travel to Spala in Poland today to take part in a two-week training camp which will last until Sunday August 4.

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