Joe McNamee travels the country for his wrap of some of the best food festivals coming our way this summer.

West Cork-based food group Carbery has opened a manufacturing and technology centre for the group’s taste and flavour division Synergy Flavours in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

MY sister, who is two glasses of Pinot down, has just introduced me as someone who ‘lives in the back arse of nowhere’ to an acquaintance of hers at a party in London, just before whisking off to get herself a refill.

The family of murdered Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan Du Plantier today vowed their 10-year fight for justice would continue despite dropping a civil action.