The High Court has ordered the winding up of two companies operating restaurants of celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher.

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THERE will be tears and tantrums from the start of Conrad Gallagher’s quest for Ireland’s Celebrity Head Chef next week.

THE relentless rain failed to dampen the spirits of food lovers who flocked to Cork’s Fitzgerald Park to whet their appetites at TasteFest.

WEARY Cork workers lapped up the sunshine as well as some food and drink as the city welcomed TasteFest to town.

A CORK park will be transformed into a culinary centrepiece over the next four days as some of the country’s top chefs tempt local and visitor alike with the best in local and international cuisine.

Cookbooks now make up half of all non-fiction bestsellers’ lists. Ahead of TasteFest Cork, local foodie Joe McNamee says his favourite Father’s Day gift is a good food tome packed with mouth-watering pictures and delicious treats.

MEET Ireland’s youngest ‘Masterchef’ — five-year- old Ciaran Crawford.

SOME of the country’s top chefs will serve up their signature dishes on the banks of the Lee next month as the southern capital celebrates its renowned food culture.

Failure is a frame of mind.

KARLA ELLIOTT, the former glamour model and rock star wife now living on social welfare, sold her designer clothes collection in a car boot sale to try to make ends meet.

A ROCK star’s ex-wife has claimed she is too poor to pay money due to workers in her failed Dublin beauty salon.

KARLA ELLIOTT has experienced a rollercoaster existence which has seen the former model experience the glamour lifestyle of being a rock star’s wife to the lows of suffering divorce, relationship breakdowns and bereavement.

High-profile drug deaths, marital break-ups, musical satire and aeroplane misdeeds, 2010 will certainly be remembered as a year of celebrity meltdown, writes Richie Taylor

FOOD fashionistas are going green – eating locally grown food and reducing their carbon footprint, Ireland’s leading food critic has claimed.

Irish celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher has been declared bankrupt by a High Court in South Africa.

DESPITE the cheery glow, the banter and experience of cooking for celebrities, Irish chef Niall Harbison failed to persuade the crew of the notorious Dragons’ Den to part with their investment cash to make his dream come true.

A young chef, who caused almost €4m damage when he burned Grainger’s public house and ‘Bed and Breakfast’ establishment in Baldoyle to the ground, will start a drug rehabilitation course next week.

A young chef, who caused almost €4m damage when he burned Grainger’s public house and ‘B&B’ in Baldoyle to the ground, has been given a chance to escape jail.

I FIND few things more irritating on TV than ‘celebrity chefs’. Jamie Oliver, with his ‘mockney’ accent, was my pet hate — until Conrad Gallagher came along.

THE Late Late Show has claimed victory in the battle for viewers with the Dunphy Show.

CELEBRITY chef Conrad Gallagher is back!

SMALL is beautiful.

“WATCH those paintings, I want them back,” shouted Conrad Gallagher as a court official walked past with one of the abstract pieces.

Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher has been found not guilty of theft by a jury of six men and women at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a six-day trial.

Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher has been found not guilty on all four counts in his trial for the theft of three paintings from the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Dublin.

A solicitor has told the Conrad Gallagher trial that the contract under which the Fitzwilliam Hotel purchased paintings from him was "unambiguous" but "untidy".

FROM Michelin-star restaurant to takeaway burgers. Such is the breadth of the culinary world of celebrity chef, Conrad Gallagher.

A FORMER personal assistant of Conrad Gallagher confiscated the chef’s cutlery because she feared he would harm himself after being accused of stealing paintings.

Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher was "far from insolvent" and his business was "thriving" when he moved his restaurant Peacock Alley to Fitzwilliam Hotel, Dublin Circuit Criminal has heard.

Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher, accused of stealing three paintings from the Fitzwilliam Hotel, told gardaí he knew they belonged to the hotel and he should not have sold them, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A few days after selling three paintings he allegedly stole from the Fitzwilliam Hotel, celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher told its general manager they had been taken from him by 'rough people', Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.

Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher was insolvent before he moved his restaurant to the Fitzwilliam Hotel, a jury has been told at the start of his trial for allegedly stealing three paintings.

CELEBRITY chef Conrad Gallagher has spoken of how he feared for his life in a New York jail while awaiting extradition to Ireland.

The trial of celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher has been brought forward to June 30 because of witness difficulties for the prosecution.

Chef Conrad Gallagher is to go on trial on July 7 next at Dublin Circuit Criminal court on charges alleging the theft of three paintings.

CELEBRITY chef Conrad Gallagher is due to be released from Cloverhill Prison today as he awaits trial on criminal charges of stealing valuable paintings from his own restaurant.

Celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher, who was charged with stealing paintings from a hotel has been “branded a fugitive“, a court heard today.

Celebrity Irish chef Conrad Gallagher, who has been accused of stealing paintings from a Dublin hotel, has been arrested in New York.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has received the indictment in the case of fugitive restaurateur Conrad Gallagher who is understood to be at present in the USA.

CELEBRITY chef Conrad Gallagher has vowed to return to Ireland to face charges of stealing paintings from a top Dublin hotel.

A warrant was today issued for the arrest of a celebrity chef Conrad Gallagher.

Leading chef Conrad Gallagher has failed in his attempt to stop his trial for the alleged theft of three paintings from going ahead as planned next Tuesday at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The trial of leading chef Conrad Gallagher for alleged theft of three paintings has been listed for October 15 after Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard he would be pleading not guilty.