Dingle Food Festival

The Menu has spent the past few days rummaging through the attic for his finest Capt Birds Eye kit as he gets dickied up for what promises to be a most splendid caper: a harbour cruise down to Cronin’s Pub, in Crosshaven, for the latest Munster Foodie Tweetup, where food-loving virtual Twitter friends meet up in the flesh for … yup, food!

FARMERS, food producers and street traders will keenly follow a case scheduled for Supreme Court consideration on Wednesday, May 11.

GROWING your own and local food are the topics of an event in Inchigeelagh, Co Cork, next Sunday at Creedon’s Hotel.

IRISH EXAMINER food writer Darina Allen told the High Court yesterday she felt very strongly about the importance of local food markets in this country and believed they played a role in rural development.

IT WILL be no secret to anyone that the Cork Market is one of my favourite places.