Time once more for Mystic Menu to ponder a culinary year ahead and, appropriately, for his first glimpse into the future, he is not taking stock but talking stock. 

THIS year we are keeping a firm eye on budgets, and the task set for me was to find delicious gifts for up to €5.

COMEDIENNE Maeve Higgins decamped to New York at the end of January, having spent the previous year living in London, and the dozen before that in Dublin.

With 800 people from 50 countries involved, the recent five-day International Committee for Animal Recording conference in Cork was a great success.

SATURDAY