The renowned Ballymaloe Country House Hotel last year enjoyed a turnaround in fortunes, returning to profit.

When it comes to keeping up with neighbours — like a certain Rachel Allen, perhaps, who as it happens lives close-by? — this East Cork home went all-out in the cooking stakes— or, more appropriately, steaks, given the size of its outdoor barbecue.

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A Michelin-star chef has urged Irish consumers to avoid cutting back on household food budgets.

THREE paintings by Irish artist Jack B Yeats, owned by the Allen family of Ballymaloe House in Cork, sold for €1.38 million under the hammer in Dublin yesterday.

IN THE light of Tim Allen’s recent conviction I would just like to say that I have had many business dealings with the Allen family over the last 20 years as an agent for an advertising guide and also supplying goods to Ballymaloe House and the craft shop.

STAFF at Ballymaloe have come out in public support of the troubled Allen family and made an impassioned plea for them to be left alone.

DISGRACED celebrity chef Tim Allen moved to protect his multi-million euro family business last night, announcing he was ceasing all connection with the Ballymaloe Cookery School and hotel.

Hearings have begun to decide the custody of the 10-month-old twin girls who were adopted over the Internet, then sent back overseas to their birth parents.

Kiara and Keyara Wecker, the Internet twin girls once at the centre of a transatlantic custody battle, were back in the United States yesterday after spending most of their lives away from their natural parents.

Alan and Judith Kilshaw were expected to learn today whether they will be able to keep the twins they claim to have legally adopted over the Internet.

Alan and Judith Kilshaw are expected to learn tomorrow whether they will be able to keep the twins they claim to have legally adopted over the Internet.

A court case to decide the future of the so-called internet adoption twins is set to resume before a High Court judge.

The High Court battle to determine the future of twin sisters allegedly sold twice over the internet is due to resume.

The next move is up to British authorities in deciding the fate of the eight-month-old internet twin girls caught up in an international custody battle.

Lawyers for a Californian couple in the transatlantic internet twins case face competition in their bid to challenge the Arkansas state adoption of the girls.