The Menu would dearly love to be unwrapping his Easter eggs in Glorious Gaillimh next weekend with the 3rd Galway Food Festival (April 17-21) in full flight over Easter.

IT’S 30 years, and the last deep recession/depression, since the then-British conservative MP Norman Tebbit effectively urged Britain’s unemployed to ‘Get on yer bike’, and go look for work instead of rioting.