Peace breaks out in ketchup row

Peace broke out under the battlements of Limerick’s King John’s Castle yesterday between a leading barrister and a top publisher who had been locked in a war of words over tomato ketchup.

Magazine publisher Michael O’Doherty raised the hackles of lawyer Brendan Nix, SC, with comments he made about Limerick on the Come Dine With Me TV series.

Mr O’Doherty had said when Limerick model Madeleine Mulqueen put tomato ketchup on lobster, it was the “grossest thing he’d seen since he was last in Limerick”.