Open water swimming legend Stephen Redmond will be honoured at the elite sport’s first global gathering in Ireland later this year — the first time it has ever been staged outside the US.

NEW ZEALAND could teach us a thing or two in a number of food related areas, they are obsessive about keeping plant animal and insect diseases out of the country.

ON a whistlestop tour of New Zealand we travelled over 3,500 miles in less than three weeks, searching out artisan food producers, funky restaurants and wine, on both the North and South Islands.