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From a wannabe Southside Evita to one of the few TDs with a spine — Lucinda Creighton has been called it all.

Remember THAT Dublin restaurateur’s response to a disgruntled customer’s review? It seems TripAdvisor wasn’t too impressed...

Ouzos Bar and Grill in Dalkey is among the highest reviewed establishments on TripAdvisor, so when a negative review came in it caught the attention of the owner - and he clearly remembered the customer.

Food critic Tom Doorley served up a varied menu of tweets yesterday to hit back at broadcaster Neil Prendeville for the coverage of his review of a Cork City restaurant.

Even if you don’t know your radishes from your rhubarb, there is something for all the family at the first Ballymaloe Garden Festival which takes place this weekend at the East Cork gardens located around Ballymaloe House and Ballymaloe Cookery School.

WHEN I heard of Honor Moore’s recent passing I was deeply saddened.

Barack Obama’s pastry chef and the co-founder of the world’s best restaurant are among a galaxy of global culinary giants on the menu for a major national festival next month.

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Cusack is suitably woebegone as the poverty-stricken Poe, the expression in his melancholy eyes constantly vacillating from depression to rage and perhaps even madness, and he gets strong support from Luke Evans as the dogged Detective Emmet Fields and Brendan Gleeson as the scenery-chewing Colonel Hamilton, father of Poe’s love interest, Emily (Alice Eve).

LEADING Irish food critics, restaurant chains and farming bodies have called on the Government to drop plans to ban the sale of raw milk due to safety concerns.

A COOK book specifically focused on the needs of people on dialysis treatment has been launched by a Cork-based survivor of life-threatening kidney disease.

Ireland’s boutique music festival will open in style tomorrow with a party atmosphere set to match its carnival setting.

SPAR Ireland today announced that it aims to increase wine sales in its stores by 40% during the next two years bringing total retail wine sales to more than €50m by 2008.

BACK in the days when the Irish palate was notoriously conservative, Derry Clarke’s father and his brother Joe dealt in everything from continental cheeses and Danish rusks to snails and frogs’ legs.

Irish Society of Poultry Fanciers’ 18th Annual Show is at Gurteen College, Roscrea, Co Tipperary today. It is open to the public after judging at 12.30pm approx.

Muck and Merlot - Tom Doorley is one of Ireland’s best known commentators on food and wine.