I’M CONTINUALLY surprised by how thrown waiting staff in many restaurants seem to be if one asks about the provenance of the food. They immediately seem to go on the defensive and it can take three or four attempts to find out the source of a piece of meat, fish or cheese.

THE Farmers’ Market movement is coming of age – it’s now over 12 years since Myrtle Allen and I first set up our stalls in Cork’s Coal Quay side-by-side with fish smoker Frank Hederman, vegetable grower Caroline Robinson, Klaus and Hannah Balz with their beautiful bunches of fresh flowers and a couple of other brave souls.

NOT even a week on the market, and already viewers have been flocking to this river Blackwater offering.

LIKE most people who have a cultural affinity to the Irish landscape, I was sickened by Dick Roche’s unscrupulous act in signing an 11th hour order for work to resume on the M3 near the Hill of Tara.

GARDAÍ arrested an average of 80 motorists a day on suspicion of drink driving during the four-day bank holiday weekend clampdown.

EVERY now and then I come across a really special place, a gem so special that I have mixed feelings about revealing its whereabouts.

A pedestrian in his early 30s has died after being struck by a car outside Navan in Co Meath this morning.