This week Joe McNamee dined in both The Field Kitchen at The Blackbird, Ballycotton and Quinlan’s Seafood Bar, 14, Princes St, Cork. Here are his thoughts.

DUBLIN’s popular anthem, ‘Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh’, would not have been out of place when George Stephens from The Fish Market in Blanchardstown was named the wnner of Bord Iascaigh Mhara’s Young Fishmonger of the Year 2016 award at a presentation dinner in Kinsale, Co Cork.