A wild salmon caught in Cork Harbour last week ended up netting a tasty chunk of cash for charity.

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A Kinsale-based company has proved pick of the bunch at this year’s Great Taste Awards.

Behind the clockwork-efficiency of the state dinner for Queen Elizabeth lay tales of last-minute mercy flights to Dublin, six-hour dashes across the country with smoked salmon and ‘forever secret’’ ingredients. Pól Ó Conghaile gets the real story