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LitFest
Author: Aoife Carrigy
Aoife Carrigy shares some of the highlights and recurring themes of this year's Ballymaloe Litfest
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Mungo Murphy Seaweed
Author: Aoife Carrigy
“Imagine 40 Hookers racing out from that bay.” We’re sitting outside Tigh Chadhain pub on a lesser-travelled stretch of Connemara’s Wild Atlantic Way. It’s gone noon on a Saturday straight out of a brochure and there’s not a cloud in the sky as we tuck into bowls of creamy chowder and glasses of Guinness.
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Gubbeen Salami
Author: Aoife Carrigy
Aoife Carrigy
Maybe it's an islander thing, but we Irish have always had a curiosity for what lies beyond our shores. Marry that with our loyal love of the land – another islander quirk – and its world-class meat and dairy, and perhaps it was inevitable that an Irish take on continental-style charcuterie would eventually become the latest food trend to take our collective fancy.
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Brett Stephenson & Pamela Walsh - Wicklow Fine Wines
Author: Aoife Carrigy
Aoife Carrigy meets two pioneers who are producing fine Irish fruit wine. Their new elderberry and blackberry flavour, launched in October, is based on wild elderberries foraged in the Wicklow Mountains during autumn 2015; blended with luscious Irish blackberries, it’s a perfect match for autumn and winter food.
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Aqua Restaurant, Howth
Author: Aoife Carrigy
Aoife Carrigy says there’s Something (Deliciously) Fishy Going On Around Ireland This Summer!
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LitFest Welcome
Author: Aoife Carrigy
Irish Food Writers' Guild Chairperson, Aoife Carrigy gives a participant’s view of LitFest!
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Aoife Carrigy
Author: Aoife Carrigy
Aoife Carrigy polishes up her crystal ball to see what’s coming to the restaurant scene in Ireland - especially Dublin - and elsewhere this year (with a little help from some insider tipsters…)
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The ICA Book of Christmas
Author: Aoife Carrigy
Aoife Carrigy introduces The ICA Book of Christmas - an evocative book that should be somewhere on every family’s gift list!
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Aoife Carrigy
Author: Aoife Carrigy
Aoife Carrigy heads off on a very unusual trip to Co Clare
It's hard to resist an invitation of tea at Father Ted's house. Especially when it's to be followed by lunch at the Robson family farmhouse in the heart of the Burren, prepared by ely's executive chef Ryan Stringer and with wines, craft beers and cider specially selected by sommelier Ian Brosnan. Throw in talks from BurrenLife conservationists, the Burren Smokehouse and the Burren SPUD project and it's no surprise we set off from ely chq with a bus full of ely staff, bloggers and journalists.
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