If ever a celebration was warranted, it’s Mother’s Day. Anna Jarvis from Virginia in the US originally initiated the special day to honour her own mother who lost nine of her 13 children before they reached adulthood.

In honour of Lá Fhéile Pádraig.

There’s a whole lot of lifestyle on offer at this modest little bungalow right across the parkland from Ballymaloe Country House.

“It was a beautiful day and Vincent, who is a fabulous chef, did a great job. He had a party out in the garden for the kids.”

Galway’s ever-splendid Kai restaurant and cafe returns with its Cookbook Club (February 25), this time focussing on London restaurant Dishoom’s From Bombay With Love and a cuisine inspired by legendary Irani cafes in late 19th century India, with chef/proprietor Jess Murphy serving up family-style sharing platters of dishes created from recipes in the book.

Cork is two years into a 10-year Bus Connects plan without a kilometre of additional bus lane or a planning application for a single park and ride.

Christmas is always a celebration at Ballymaloe. The key is to plan ahead so that you can enjoy the day with your family.

Ballymaloe Cookery School’s students spread far and wide, using the skills they learned to push the boundaries of the global food scene.

Drawn by Darina’s endless enthusiasm and passion for good food, the greatest minds of the global food scene come to Ballymaloe to teach, and leave having learned a lesson of their own.

When Darina cooks for her family, she focuses on simple recipes made with minimal effort

To celebrate 21 years of Darina’s Irish Examiner column, our team delved into the archives to create a magazine dedicated to the woman who taught so many of us to cook.

As Darina Allen marks 21 years of writing for The Irish Examiner, she talks to Ciara McDonnell about her amazing career.

This week I am going to devote my entire column to cakes and baking.

I’ve just landed my first acting role. On The Abbey stage.

Frighten yourselves silly with 15 of the the best Halloween events taking place this year...

On a recent trip to Northern Ireland, I was blown away by the explosion of artisan food and drink producers.

SCIENCE FAIR: More than 50 exhibitors will take part in this year’s Munster Maths and Science Family Fair in Mallow GAA complex on Sunday from 11.30am to 4.30pm.

Macroom Flower & Garden Club hosts a floral demonstration with Helen Cusack AOIFA entitled ‘Hidden Gems of Autumn including ideas for wedding flowers’ on Thursday, September 12

It was always the plan that I should run the farm at Ballymaloe.

Carolanne Rushe has a way of drawing you in. Talk of her travels and how the vertiginous mounds of aromatic spices in the Qatar souk influenced her cooking is enough to whet any appetite.

I studied veterinary medicine in UCD. From there, I went working in the Curragh and London, before travelling to Cornwall, where I worked in the early 1990s. I was then in Dublin for 12 years, before returning to Cork with the intention of setting up my own practice.

Good Food Ireland has launched a new online service to encourage food lovers to stay with and engage in activities with Ireland’s leading food producers and chefs.

From brunch to burgers, fine dining to street food, Joe McNamee has the pick of the top dining destinations across the country.

Having grown up in the culinary institution that is Ballymaloe, Formula 4 racing driver Lucca Allen might have been pre-destined towards a kitchen apron than the car racing attire he dons nowadays. With no family ties to the world of motor racing, the 16-year-old son of Darina Allen jettisoned football, hockey, and rugby for the allure of the race track.

May 20 is World Bee Day so I’m devoting a whole column this week to honey, nature’s most delicious, interesting and biodiverse sweetener.

A former Cork dentist returned to her passion for painting late in life and has produced enough work for an exhibition of her own.

Joshua Allen, 19, has been remanded to Cork Circuit Criminal Court after appearing before Midleton District Court on six drugs charges.

The World Restaurant Awards celebrated two Irish restaurants, both of them from Cork: Paradiso for its locally sourced ingredients, and Ballymaloe for its iconic dessert trolley. Joe McNamee meets the makers

They won Cookbook of the Year for their compilation of recipes inspired by local ingredients. James Kavanagh and William Murray – the duo behind Currabinny – will have the same focus on Irish produce in their new ‘Weekend’ food column, writes Esther McCarthy.

They won Cookbook of the Year for their compilation of recipes inspired by local ingredients. James Kavanagh and William Murray – the duo behind Currabinny – will have the same focus on Irish produce in their new ‘Weekend’ food column, writes Esther McCarthy.

They won Cookbook of the Year for their compilation of recipes inspired by local ingredients. James Kavanagh and William Murray – the duo behind Currabinny – will have the same focus on Irish produce in their new ‘Weekend’ food column, writes Esther McCarthy.

From veganism to gut health to tea bars, Darina Allen unveils the year’s top food trends

The siopa beag stocks everything from Club Lemon to Ballymaloe relish and Barry’s Tea.

For retail therapy with a difference, events are taking place in the coming weeks selling locally-designed and hand-made products, writes Carol O’Callaghan

Spend this midterm getting your spook on, with Ciara McDonnell’s pick of the best events taking place on Halloween week.

IRELAND’S coastline is having quite the moment of international recognition, what with the likes of the extraordinarily successful Wild Atlantic Way and the coastal fringe of Ireland’s Ancient East, and now, the stunningly-filmed, informative and evocative four-part TV documentary on RTÉ One, Great Lighthouses of Ireland.

TV chef Rachel Allen is to close her first restaurant for a €1m casual dining reinvention. Rachel’s, on Cork’s Washington St, which opened in March 2017, will close on August 8 for the eight-week revamp.

Myrtle Allen, founder of the world renowned Ballymaloe House in Co Cork, will be laid to rest tomorrow following a Quaker ceremony.

The Rebel city has done royal visits before. But for Patsy Flynn and his wife, Kathy, it was their first.

We will do our utmost to carry on her incredible legacy.

So passionate was she about Irish produce, she once carried a heavy suitcase stuffed full of locally grown apples on board a flight to New York where she had been invited to deliver a cookery class.