This year’s Macroom Food Festival (Sept 23-25) sets out under the thematic heading of ‘Blás na hÁite’, which is as it should be for the lovely Cork town and its glorious hinterland, heaving with some very fine producers, farmers, and growers, many of them great favourites of The Menu. 

IT WAS only after “robust discussions” between sponsors ‘3’ and the European Tour that the August Bank Holiday was agreed as the date for next year’s Irish Open Golf Championship to be played for the third time over the Killeen Course at Killarney.

ALMOST two years before concerns over the standard of care at Leas Cross became public knowledge in 2005, the family of Katherine Mullins contacted the then Northern Area Health Board over the treatment of their mother at the home.

A LEAS Cross-style inquiry into the substandard care exposed at a second private nursing home is still a possibility, the minister with responsibility for older people said.