NOW that we can get the same vegetables and fruit in the supermarket in January or July we have lost much of our instincts for eating seasonally.

A new cycling resort opens in Co Cork next weekend in a major tourism initiative at a family-owned country park.

THE threat posed to Irish food firms by rising costs and the difficulties engulfing the economy was high- lighted recently by the Irish Food Writers’ Guild (IFWG).

HEAVEN or hell, and nothing in between. Or so you would think. Those who insisted on getting carried away at the Bridge were probably the same people howling “Wigan? WIGAN?!?” on Saturday night.