Far too many four and five-star hotels in Ireland are under-performing and proving a disappointment to high-paying guests, according to Georgina Campbell, the woman behind the annual hospitality awards.

John Meagher visits Viewmount House and experiences VM, the restaurant that put Longford on the culinary map.

Love them or hate them, they are the vegetable of the season and so for a brussels sprout farmer, Christmas is even more crazy than for the rest of us says Deirdre Reynolds

A great man for Shank’s Mare, one of The Menu’s finest ever escapades was on the Burren, so the prospect of a walking weekend at the peak of wildflower season led by author/guide Tony Kirby (May 10-12) in Co Clare has him dusting down the clogs.