The Menu is buckling up and donning his super-elasticated, eating shorts for one of the true culinary heavyweight events — the 6th Savour Kilkenny Food Festival (Oct 25-29).

A dry cleaners, which asked the Circuit Civil Court yesterday to fix a new rent for its store at Superquinn’s Knocklyon Shopping Centre, Dublin, will save almost €250,000 in rental payments over the 20-year term of a new lease.

IT’S still May, but it feels like Christmas for 24 lucky golfers who will tee it up with the biggest names in the game at the JP McManus Invitational pro-am in a few weeks.