Lovers of craft brews will be saying cheers to a new festival in Cork this Easter which will also feature locally produced artisan food and toe-tapping live music.

The family which has owned a popular city pub for more than a century has built a micro-brewery in the basement and launched a range of craft beers and stouts.

Oyster exports rising 60% in two years should ensure keen interest in a BIM innovation conference for oyster growers in Galway today.

THE first anniversary of the “Taste of Ballyhoura Country” food brand will be celebrated in Kilmallock, Co Limerick, today.

With craft beer one of the few success stories to emerge from the recession, the Mitchelstown-based brewers Eight Degrees stand out as the brewmasters. And they’re only just getting started, writes Trish Dromey

The West is very much awake for The Menu as he hightails it off down to Heir Island, West Cork, for Firehouse Bread’s splendid wood-fired oven bread-making course.

Seven neighbouring food companies in north Cork and east Limerick have boosted their business by launching the umbrella brand A Taste of Ballyhoura Country.

As a festival of Irish craft brewing begins, Joe McNamee clinks glasses and compares tasting notes with Ireland’s new breed of quality micro-brewers.