The Menu is readying himself once more for yet another trip to Cloughjordan, this time for a weekend conference (May 26/27), Feeding Ourselves: Rural Revitalisation through a Cooperative Approach to Farming and Food, an annual gathering of small farmers, community food advocates and anyone with an interest in good food, farming and rural revitalisation.

I refer to your article about Indaver in talks to bury 40,000t of ash at Bottlehill, North of Cork, in April 14th’s Irish Examiner.

A construction firm boss says the completed stock in Cork is equivalent to just three months normal demand, writes Tommy Barker