One of my earliest memories is sitting at the table, not wanting to eat it, and heaping sugar onto a rapidly cooling bowl of porridge watching it caramelise 

— and that's just one of recipe made using delicious ingredients from the well-deserved winners of the Irish Food Writers Guild Awards

An astrophysicist has been crowned the world porridge making champion.

GENERATIONS of Irish people have started each day with a bowl of porridge produced from cereals grown on some of the country’s best tillage lands.

Consumers could give the economy a major boost by eating Irish porridge instead of imported breakfast cereals — so says Andrew Doyle, Fine Gael TD for Wicklow and East Carlow and chairman of the Oireachtas Agriculture, Food and the Marine Committee.