Fota frameyard award

IT was all beer and skittles at Fota House last week.

Well, if not beer, cider, to be brewed from the apples in the old orchard which remains as a further restoration project for Fota’s proprietors, The Irish Heritage Trust.

Glistening in their wicker baskets the apples were on display for Minister Leo Varadkar, whose Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport gave €1.7 million to the €2.5 million resurrection of Fota’s kitchen gardens.