Person: Caroline Rigney

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>L-R: Virginia O'Gara of My Goodness; Ultan Walsh, Gort na Nain; Sally Barnes, Woodcock Smokery</p>

food

Progress and produce: 50 Irish food producers that have embraced sustainability

Meet our local food pioneers — men and women who run their businesses with a desire to do right by the planet.

general

In clover: Enjoying the good life, from pig farmer to Reiki master

food

The Menu: Enticing dining opportunities around Ireland

food

Darina Allen on eating a little less meat

general

WATCH: Meet the couple who gave up the rat race to breed rare pigs

home and gardens

VIDEO: Shopping with the best of locally produced food at a thriving urban co-op

‘We learnt being free range was in the breeding and not just the life an animal led’

There are many differences between today’s farms and those of 30 years ago.

Thu, 12 Feb, 2015

The menu: Where dinner is centre stage

While the pre-theatre dinner is a great boon to the restaurateurs, The Menu confesses to finding such dining to be overly rushed so is much taken with the Ballyvolane House solution, whereby the theatre comes to the diners.

Sun, 14 Oct, 2012

Bringing home the bacon

WE BADLY need a reason to celebrate, so let’s join the revellers and merrymakers all over the world and really enjoy St Patrick’s Day.

Sat, 12 Mar, 2011

Warm Salad of Rigneys Bacon with Poached Egg and Beal Farmhouse Cheese

Caroline Rigney rears free-range Tamworth, Saddleback and Gloucester Old Spot pigs in Kilcornan, Co Limerick. Their bacon is sweet and delicious. The beautiful Beal Farmhouse organic cheese is made by Kate Carmody, the chairwoman of the board of directors for the Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association.

Sat, 22 Nov, 2008