Welcome to The Menu’s House of Love, a special loveheavy edition of this column.

APRIL is Real Wine Month which focuses on minimal intervention “natural” wines and also low intervention organic and biodynamic wines.

An armed gang that stole two old masters worth more than £3m from an art collection in Co Wicklow were tonight thought to have slipped out of the area - despite having to flee on foot.

Gardai are today investigating the theft of two paintings valued at a total of £3m from Russborough House, Co Wicklow.