The Menu only ever believes the season proper has begun with the annual advent of the West Waterford Festival of Food (April 26-28), in delightful Dungarvan.

Food news with Joe McNamee.

Poisoning and asphyxiation are the “foremost contenders” in the sports bag death riddle of MI6 spy Gareth Williams, an inquest has heard.

Secret agents specialising in the “dark arts” might have tried to cover up the mysterious death of an MI6 spy found in a holdall, a coroner in Britain heard today.