John McAreavey has spoken about how drinking tea as a student played a central role in him falling in love with his wife Michaela.

The Bord Bia-organised Ireland stand will feature some of our utterly splendid raw milk cheeses.

For Darina Allen it’s the pond at the end of her garden, for Donal Skehan and Trevor Sargent it’s their vegetable plots, and for Peter Kelly it’s his polythene tunnel. Ahead of Bloom, Áilín Quinlan peeks over the fence into the gardens and personal oases of four well-known Irish faces.