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Ireland’s most important celebration is about to begin and no, it’s not St Patrick’s Day.

The Menu couldn’t be happier than to hymn the praises of the Cork Coffee Weekend.

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It didn’t quite compensate for the recent failure to bring back Sam to the Kingdom, but there was great local delight at the crowning of Cahirciveen company Quinlan’s Seafood as supreme champions at the Blás na hÉireann Food Awards as part of the annual Dingle Food Festival that took place in the Kerry over the weekend.

The Dingle Food Festival is upon us again (October 2-4). 

Having three fine sisters himself, The Menu is a great man to hymn the praises of supportive female siblings so reckons the alliance of ‘Three Sisters’ from the South-East, Waterford, Wexford and Kilkenny.

Irish chef Mark Moriarty has been named the most talented young chef in the world — the 23-year-old won the prestigious title of San Pellegrino Young Chef 2015 during a ceremony in Milan at the weekend.

Budding chef Mark Moriarty may only be 23 but he already has a lot on his plate. He is in the running for the international title of San Pellegrino young chef of the year.

The annual Irish Food Writers’ Guild Awards, in Dublin’s Michelin-starred L’Ecrivain, is invariably one of the finer beanos in the culinary calendar, with Chef Derry Clarke always putting on an exceedingly fine nosebag, each course based on the produce of a particular award winner.

After weeks of Halloween shenanigans, the ghouls and goblins (both commercial and otherwise) have shuffled off for another year.

Full marks in this year's Leaving Certificate went to students in Kerry, Cork and Dublin.

LEADING science students in a number of Cork secondary schools are setting their sights on international successes after a haul of gold, silver and bronze medals at a science fair.