When Michael and Bridie O’Neill started in the hospitality trade 27 years ago at Renard Point, near Cahersiveen in Kerry, being in the Michelin Guide was far from their minds.

BACK in the day when most Irish fish restaurants served food wrapped in paper and you ate it standing up, Margaret Thatcher’s Britain gave us the Gastro Pub.

A TOP pub and restaurant has let four amateur chefs loose in its kitchen, giving a local twist to the celebrity chef-style competition.