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Insider View - Internet Reviews


Lucy & Johnny Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
Lucy Madden considers the advantages – and the perils – of the internet, especially in relation to a subject dear to our own hearts: ‘impartial’ online reviews...
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Grow it Yourself - September


From The Ground Up by Fionnuala Fallon
Author: Michael Kelly
If you are looking for inspiration for your growing endeavours, it can often be found in the gardens of other GIYers. I always find that walking around another grower’s garden leaves me with renewed inspiration and several useful tips to take back to my own vegetable patch. I guess this is why the garden visit and meitheal are such important parts of the GIY group experience.
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Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for August - The River Restaurant at Limerick Strand Hotel


Limerick Strand Hotel - Chef Tom Flavin
Author: Just Ask
The River Restaurant at The Strand Hotel, Co. Limerick has been awarded Bord Bia’s Just Ask! Restaurant of the Month for August. In receiving the award the restaurant which is open to guests of the hotel and general public, is being acknowledged for its commitment to sourcing ingredients locally.
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The Seafood Interview supported by BIM - Mary Anns Bar and Restaurant


Mary Ann's Bar & Restaurant - Castletownshend County Cork Ireland
Author: Marilyn Bright
Marilyn Bright talks to Patricia and Fergus O'Mahony, who have been running their renowned seafood pub in West Cork for over 25 years – that’s a quarter of a century before the word 'gastro-pub' entered the vocabulary of unsuspecting foodies everywhere.
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70 per cent of leading Irish restaurants have increased purchase of local goods in the past two years


Just Ask
Author: Just Ask
A survey conducted among leading Irish restaurant owners and chefs from around the country has shown that 70% of those surveyed have increased the amount of local ingredients for use in their restaurants in the past 2 years.
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The Seafood Interview supported by BIM - Out of the Blue, Dingle


Tim Mason - Out of the Blue
Author: Marilyn Bright
Marilyn Bright talks to Tim Mason of Out of the Blue, Dingle, Co Kerry, a man who saw potential in a derelict shack beside the harbour - and turned it into one of Ireland’s best-known (and most uncompromising) seafood restaurants.
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Summer Lamb


Neven Maguire - Summer Lamb
Author: Georgina Campbell
Lamb may be synonymous with spring but, while tender, the small joints that make it to the Easter table are not a patch on the fuller-flavoured (and better value) meat that comes onto the market later in the season. The size, texture and flavour of lamb varies depending on the breed and how it has been raised. Broadly this divides into the large lowland lamb and mountain lamb....
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Doing it the Westport Way


Westport
Author: Marilyn Bright
We have long admired Westport and were not a bit surprised when it was recently hailed The Irish Times Best Place To Live In Ireland. Not just a pretty town - although it is certainly that – but also an exceptionally satisfying place to visit for a break, and to do business, it is blessed with wonderful scenery, good planning (why have we learned so little from the success of our planned towns?) and a vibrant community who work together to bring people to the area.
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The Darina Allen Column - Artisan Milk & Handmade Butter


Darina Allen
Author: Darina Allen
The artisan milk and handmade butter movement is really gathering momentum, it is still minute but boy is it causing a stir. Single estate milk is a new growth area in Irish food. Many top restaurants are now featuring handmade butter proudly on their tables and at last a growing number of dairy farmers are putting milk back into glass bottles and selling organic non-homogenised milk and butter. I sense the same passion as in the artisan brewing movement and as with the brewers there’s a generosity of spirit and room for many more.
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Grow it Yourself - July


Grow it Yourself - Harvest
Author: Michael Kelly
There are some vegetables that you grow yourself and you really wonder whether it's worth the hassle, particularly if there are good commercial alternatives available. But given the fact that most of the tomatoes in our supermarkets are the super-bland, all-year-round Dutch variety and taste of ....well nothing at all, having a good crop of your own tomatoes is really one of the most rewarding things you can do.
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