AS someone obsessed by the idea of catching impossibly large and beautiful salmon in impossibly large and beautiful rivers I have had to come to understand that the hoping and wishing may almost be as exciting as the arriving and doing. 

All of Ireland’s nine Michelin star restaurants have retained their status.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland served five enforcement orders on food businesses in May for breaches in food safety legislation.

Cork’s reputation as the food capital of Ireland was confirmed yesterday at the 2014 Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards, with six of the seven awards going to producers, organisations or individuals based in the county.

Michelin-starred restaurant Thornton’s, which is owned by celebrity chef Kevin Thornton, dipped further into the red last year.

Colette Sheridan talks to Louis Lovett about his hit show The Girl who Forgot to Sing Badly

Celebrity chef Derry Clarke gets together with fellow chef Kevin Dundon to give some barbeque master classes at this year’s Taste of Dublin festival.

Claire Droney spends the weekend pampering herself at a Connemara getaway

NOEL MEADE’S horses are flying right now and his Pointilliste is the nap choice in the Thoroughbred Trail Weekend Maiden Hurdle at Punchestown this afternoon.

A CHINESE restaurant on the outskirts of Cork and one part of a hotel in Cavan have been served with closure orders by the country’s food safety watchdog.

I’VE BEEN backwards and forwards to London a lot recently to work with my long-suffering editor doing the final tweaking on the manuscript of my Forgotten Skills book.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland today served closure orders on two premises in Galway and one in Wexford.

Leading chef Conrad Gallagher has failed in his attempt to stop his trial for the alleged theft of three paintings from going ahead as planned next Tuesday at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.