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England: Corn-on-the-cob-consuming contestants have failed to break the sweetcorn-eating world record despite their “valiant efforts” in the UK championships.

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The revelation that only one-in-three children under seven know what chips are made of is almost a perfect opportunity for a certain kind of Col. Blimp rant but in reality it must be a cause for a kind of almost hopeless sadness and resignation.

The world’s largest festival of juggling and circus skills continues this weekend, as fireworks light up a harbour festival in west Cork, and the country’s oldest horse race meeting goes ahead in Co Kerry.

Actress Sophie Thompson has been crowned winner of Celebrity MasterChef.

Forget the lavish spreads of Masterchef and The Great Irish Bake-Off — the true test of a great cook is how to make mouth-watering magic from one very humble ingredient, the fiver.

I like to think I’m strong, but I cry easily at small things.

While The Menu remains forever enraptured by our glorious West coast, he knows full well that man does not live on scenery alone...

Ireland’s MasterChef Diana Dodog knows how to put passion on a plate. Diana, 35, originally from Hungary but now living in Courtmacsherry, Co Cork, loves food and to see people enjoying what she serves up.

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Limerick is preparing for a tasty €10m economic French dressing as thousands of Toulouse supporters throng the city today in advance of the Heineken Cup quarter-final clash with Munster in Thomond Park tomorrow.

The Dublin restaurant owned by Masterchef Ireland presenter Nick Munier has served up tasty profits for its most recent financial year.

It wasn’t cooking in one of the finest Michelin-starred restaurants in London, and afterwards in Stockholm — challenges posed in the MasterChef Ireland final — that Tamarin Blackmur found most challenging.

Just 10 weeks ago there were 16 chefs hoping to roast, bake — and the new must-do, “sous-vide” — their way to the title of MasterChef Ireland champion.

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My biggest challenge is trying to give 110% each day.

A court is to decide tomorrow if a quartet of publicans, headed by night club entrepreneur John Reynolds, will foot the €100,000 legal costs bill for their unsuccessful bid to stop 'Masterchef' judge Dylan McGrath, getting a full public house license for his new restaurant.

TV’s Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath was yesterday granted a full public house drinks licence for his new €1.4m restaurant in Fade St, Dublin.

A licensing row over Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath's new restaurant venture in Dublin city will be decided by a court next Tuesday.

Masterchef judge and restaurateur Dylan McGrath is at the centre of a court case involving licensing objections to his new premises in Dublin’s Fade St.

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MasterChef judges Dylan McGrath and Nick Munier say forcing restaurants to display calories on menus is a stupid idea and impossible.

From the shopping aisle to the Church aisle might be a shorter step than you think and it all starts in that most romantic of places — Tesco in Cabra.

FOOD has almost replaced soccer as the unavoidable presence on television.

ROLLING, stuffing and cooking a rabbit in a bain marie proved to be just too much for MasterChef Ireland contestant Christine O’Sullivan.

'EastEnders' stars are today celebrating their big wins at the UK's TV Choice Awards.

AUSTRALIA’S prime ministerial candidates have been forced to move their one and only election debate — because of TV reality hit, MasterChef.