A total of 15 eateries — including four restaurants on the same Dublin street —were forced to close last month for breaching food safety regulations.

Hotels in Tipperary and Wexford were among the 12 closure orders issued to food businesses last month, according to the latest figures from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland.

Four restaurants and three pubs have been hit with closure orders for breaches of food safety regulations.

Seven food businesses, among them an award-winning cake stall in Cork’s English Market, were served with closure orders last month for various breaches of food safety legislation.

Two batches of frozen cooked mussels have had to be withdrawn from supermarket sale after they were linked to reports of illnesses, including diarrhoea.

A well-known Dublin restaurant popular with TDs and senators was just one of 10 premises forced to close last month for breaching food safety regulations.

A Castletownbere-based seafood company was served with a prohibition order last month and six food businesses around the country were closed down, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland in its latest announcement of enforcement orders.

Horsemeat may have been in the food system and passed off as beef for up to three years, according to the head of the country’s food safety watchdog.

The chief executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland yesterday said there was “absolutely no excuse for negligent practices”.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland is again urging consumers to boil all imported frozen berries before eating.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has closed 15 food businesses across the country as a result of breaches of food safety regulations.

Food safety chiefs shut down nine businesses last month over public health fears.

Frozen beef burger sales have been hit hardest by the fall-out from the horsemeat controversy with a new survey indicating half of those who regularly bought them have now cut back.

An email from the boss of Ireland’s food safety watchdog to the Department of Health a week before the publication of test results for horse DNA in beef burgers flagged the possibility of fraud in the system.

Imported frozen berries have been linked to an outbreak of potentially fatal hepatitis A in Ireland, it has emerged.

Consumers have been warned to boil frozen berries before consumption after they were linked to an outbreak of Hepatitis A.

State authorities partially shut a leading childcare facility earlier this year over food hygiene concerns.

The food and drinks’ industry says it will show efforts made to drive down sugar and saturated fats in processed foods are having a notable impact on people’s health.

Ireland’s food watchdog has denied an accusation by a UK House of Commons committee that its tests for horsemeat were part of a conspiracy to tackle issues in the beef industry while avoiding criminal prosecutions.

Ten food businesses were served with closure orders for breaches of food safety legislation last month.

The Head of the Food Safety Authority has said he is amazed at the breadth of the worldwide horsemeat scandal his organisation uncovered.

The boss of frozen foods supermarket chain Iceland has apologised for comments he made about “the Irish” in a current affairs programme on the horse meat scandal.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland issued closure orders to seven restaurants and food providers last month, for food safety breaches.

The head of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland has said the horsemeat scandal has become a Europe-wide problem and testing systems must be put in place to ensure the integrity of processed food.

Frozen food giant Findus has reiterated its apology over some of its beef lasagne products containing horse meat, after claims that the contamination could stretch back to last summer.

Garda investigators have a major task on their hands to establish when and where Polish beef was fraudulently replaced with horsemeat.

The Department of Agriculture is building an investigation with the help of gardaí into the origin of horsemeat in Irish burgers with the anticipation of future legal and compensation cases.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has committed to resolving the horse meat crisis after food safety chiefs warned of fraudsters drip-feeding contaminated product into the food chain.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney will brief a parliamentary committee on the horse meat controversy today after a second processing plant tested positive for equine DNA.

A second Irish meat processing plant has tested positive for traces of horse meat.

The UK’s food watchdog is to consult with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) over whether legal action should be taken against companies at the centre of the scandal over horse meat in beef burgers.

Farming and consumer groups have called for an inquiry after horse meat was found in beef burgers being sold in Irish supermarkets.

Vets from the Department of Agriculture are taking samples and interviewing management from one of the country’s biggest processing plants to establish how horse meat ended up in beef burgers.

Beef burgers for sale in Irish branches of Tesco were found to contain 29% horsemeat, after the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) did a spot-check on beef products for sale in supermarkets.

A record 109 food premises were warned to clean up their act by environmental chiefs last year.

Three closure orders and two prohibition orders were issued by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) in Cork last month.

The ongoing recession is causing some restaurants to cut back on safety measures — risking the health of customers and resulting in record-breaking closure order rates.

Children’s weight, like their eyesight, should be checked regularly, a nutrition expert has told the joint committee on health and children.

Ireland’s food safety watchdog has issued a warning about the risk of food poisoning from eating wild shellfish found along the West coast.

One of the highest number of enforcement orders in 10 years was dished out to cafés and restaurants last month, figures show.

One of the highest number of enforcement orders in 10 years was dished out to cafes and restaurants last month, new figures have revealed.

One of the country’s best-known public houses — Morrisey’s in Abbeyleix, Co Laois — was one of seven food outlets served with a closure order for breaches of food safety legislation.