A woman who appeared in the first season of RTE's First Dates Ireland is due to be sentenced today for harassing celebrity chef Dylan McGrath.

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RTÉ First Dates star Daphney Sanasie reportedly bombarded celebrity chef Dylan McGrath with nuisance phonecalls and disturbing messages including texts about “demons and souls” because she thought it was funny.

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Leslie Williams reviews The Ramen Bar Okoro Bento, Dublin.

The Menu has to cast his mind back to the literal and metaphorical dark days of boarding school to recall the last time he regularly ate in total darkness, scoffing biscuits under the covers after lights out, the better to supplement the school canteen’s daily deep-fried offerings of items that may or may not have contained actual food.

First Dates star Daphney Sanasie will go on trial in January accused of harassing celebrity chef Dylan McGrath.

A “plumbing issue” forced chef Dylan McGrath to close one of his restaurants on a Friday night last month.

RTÉ First Dates star Daphney Sanasie who is accused of harassing chef Dylan McGrath has been given four weeks to decide how she will plead.

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I HAD been given the lie-in. Luke was up at his usual time — six o’clock — but this morning even though it was my turn to go get him, Ciara let me stay in the scratcher.

Gregans Castle Hotel in Ballyvaughan, Co Clare, has won the 2016 Georgina Campbell Hotel of the Year award.

The Chef’s Table by Stefan Matz, Delphi Adventure Resort, Leenane, Connemara, Co Galway; 095-42208; delphiadventureresort.com

Beyonce and Jay Z last year helped the cash pile at the Dylan McGrath-run restaurant, Fade Street Social more than double to €227,664.

Glenda Gilson wed her childhood sweetheart in a traditional ceremony in Co Clare yesterday.

Ireland’s MasterChef Diana Dodog knows how to put passion on a plate. Diana, 35, originally from Hungary but now living in Courtmacsherry, Co Cork, loves food and to see people enjoying what she serves up.

Three women, hungry to take home the title of MasterChef Ireland, will battle it out in the kitchen tonight.

We LOVE that music's golden couple take the kids to the park, just like anyone else.

MasterChef Ireland and Hector both make welcome returns.

THE CURSE of MasterChef? It’s the opposite, says John Torode, as the eighth series of Celebrity MasterChef returns to television last Wednesday night.

Funding for food projects

Craic, music and food mighty in Westport

It’s champagne time for the country’s top chefs who made the grade in one of the most exclusive culinary and hospitality clubs in the land — the 100 Best Restaurants and 100 Best Places to Stay in Ireland.

Celebrity chef Dylan McGrath has revealed that he considered turning his back on Ireland before he made his comeback with his new restaurant empire.

Fade Street Social, Fade Street, Dublin 2; tel: 01-6040066; fadestreetsocial.com

Entrepreneur Jay Bourke said yesterday that he is very happy with the performance of his restaurant the Market Bar, with figures showing that the business increased pre-tax profits by 28% to €401,018 in 2011.

The only son of award- winning restaurateurs Derry and Sallyanne Clarke was laid to rest amid emotional scenes on Saturday.

After 10 weeks of blanching, boiling, and trying not to burn, Tamarin Blackmur has been crowned MasterChef Ireland champion.

Just 10 weeks ago there were 16 chefs hoping to roast, bake — and the new must-do, “sous-vide” — their way to the title of MasterChef Ireland champion.

One of the most prominent businessman of the Celtic Tiger era, Hugh O’Regan, was yesterday given a prolonged standing ovation during his funeral Mass.

Bite, 29 South Frederick Street, Dublin; Tel: 01-6797000; bitedublin.com

A court is to decide tomorrow if a quartet of publicans, headed by night club entrepreneur John Reynolds, will foot the €100,000 legal costs bill for their unsuccessful bid to stop 'Masterchef' judge Dylan McGrath, getting a full public house license for his new restaurant.

The Brown Bear, Two Mile House, Co Kildare; Tel: 045-883561; thebrownbear.ie

TV’s Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath was yesterday granted a full public house drinks licence for his new €1.4m restaurant in Fade St, Dublin.

Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath says he is over the moon he has won a licensing row in the courts over his new venture Fade Street Social in Dublin city.

A licensing row over Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath's new restaurant venture in Dublin city will be decided by a court next Tuesday.

Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath told a judge he had no intention of turning his €new €1.4m restaurant in Dublin’s Fade St into a “public house”.

Masterchef judge and restaurateur Dylan McGrath is at the centre of a court case involving licensing objections to his new premises in Dublin’s Fade St.

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Ryan Tubridy will be helping to cook up a storm from next month when he kicks off the hunt for the country’s master chef.

Armed raiders held up staff in Dylan McGrath’s Rustic Stone restaurant before escaping with the weekend takings.

Celebrity chef Dylan McGrath has revealed he still has the appetite to whip up Michelin star-winning meals.