Valerie O’Connor delights in meat-free feasts at restaurants in Kerry and Limerick that show you don’t have to go without taste if you decide to go without flesh in your diet.

The recently launched Limerick Arts Encounter is an initiative aimed at enabling the city’s arts practitioners to deliver a varied programme with funding from the Arts Council.

THE recent cut in Arts Council grant aid to arts organisations throughout the country is having a devastating effect on these organisations.