Three Cork restaurants have been awarded the prestigious Michelin star award for the first time.

The summer festival season is already under way with more of the big guns readying themselves in the weeks ahead.

It’s another chapter in the success story of Chapter One, with the fine dining Dublin venue voted the best restaurant in Ireland for the ninth time by the Restaurant Association of Ireland.

Leslie Williams experiences Ireland’s oldest distillery – Bushmills in Antrim. Plus he visits the top tourist sites along the way.

After his success on Misfits, writer Mike O’Leary turns his attention to Irish life, writes Padraic Killeen