Christmas highlights include Mrs Browns Boys and a documentary on Dermot Morgan.

CHRISTMAS memories are usually the stuff of magic, but sometimes they’re a little less so. Here, some of Ireland’s best known recall the Christmas gifts they remember for all the wrong reasons.

Make your Christmas a cracker with top tips from celebrity chefs, plus advice on creating the perfect festive table. Joe McNamee and Áilín Quinlan ask the experts.

As several thousand happy and sated punters headed for the exits at the Irish Examiner Food Festival in Cork’s Fitzgerald Park yesterday evening, the light mist finally began to thicken, marking the end of the splendid weather that proved a vital ingredient in the tremendous success of a celebration of food and drink on Leeside.

Enjoying a head massage by the pond in Fitzgerald Park, still savouring the exquisite aftertastes of some Ballymaloe crab paté washed down with a 30-year-old sherry, as a string quartet plays in the background — it is hard to imagine a finer place to be on a Friday afternoon than the inaugural Irish Examiner Food Festival.

Some of Cork's best restaurants will be showcasing their dishes this weekend at the The Irish Examiner Food Festival, which returns to Fitzgerald's Park in Cork city, and will run until Sunday.

Sunshine and fine food made last night’s launch of the Irish Examiner Food Festival a recipe for success.

This year's Irish Examiner Food Festival kicks-off in Cork this afternoon.

The weather may have scuppered thousands of back-garden barbecue plans but one of the country’s top food festivals is going ahead this weekend come hail, rain or shine.

Four celebrity chefs, 12 questions. Ahead of the Irish Examiner Food Festival next week, Darina Allen, Andrew Rudd, Rachel Allen and Paolo Tullio reveal their dream dinner party guests, memorable meals — and their favourite summer recipes.

The beautiful Fitzgerald Park on Cork's Mardyke will be transformed this 19th - 22nd July into an exceptionalculinary experience as top chefs, restaurants and food & wine specialists from Cork and its environs vie with each other to tempt you with their best and most popular dishes

A feast of food from some of the country’s leading chefs, restaurants, and producers will be served up during a revamped food festival in a city park next month.

THE hit reality TV show The Apprentice returns to TV3 next Monday night with 16 contestants battling over 12 weeks to go into partnership with businessman Bill Cullen.

IRELAND’S national dish is more likely to be pasta rather than corned beef and cabbage, research has revealed.