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Thinking back over our recent Irish Food & Hospitality Awards, every participant is very special and the highlights are too many to mention in one bite, but the Natural Food Awards collection of producers is always key to everything, and they provide the delicious foundation of the gala lunch. This year we had not only an great array in our regular food categories but, for the first time, all of the drinks for the welcome reception and to accompany the meal were supplied by Irish producers...
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For anyone unfamiliar with the story of Irish whiskey, the press release that accompanied Oisín Davis’s new book The Irish Whiskey Cookbook: 50 Recipes to Cook, Sip and Savour provided a great introduction: “Boom, bust and boom again – a five-word synopsis of the Irish whiskey industry over the last couple of hundred years...
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Winners of the Georgina Campbell 2026 Irish Food & Hospitality Awards announced
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Our travels around the country this year have been brilliant so far, thanks to the exceptional weather and – envisaging it from a visitor’s point of view as always – it’s a particular pleasure to find authentic experiences, warm hospitality and quality food with a real Irish feel in popular tourist destinations...
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The June bank holiday weekend had plenty going for it this year – not least the sunshine – and Bord Bia Bloom celebrated its 20th year of transforming a (very) large site in the Phoenix Park into Ireland’s biggest festival of gardening, food, and sustainable living. It was especially exciting in the early days, because we’d never had anything like this before in Ireland and, being relatively small and pleasingly personal, it stood up surprisingly well against the obvious point of comparison, Chelsea. Two decades on, Bloom has been mindfully developed and, while much bigger – really too much of interest to do justice to on a one day visit now – it has retained a sense of connection as you’re bound to see familiar faces at every turn.
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Now well established as a major player in Irish food and tourism, Waterford was blessed with fine weather recently for the 17th Waterford Festival of Food which drew some 80,000 people to Dungarvan, Waterford City and surrounding areas, to attend an extraordinary range of events...
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We are saddened by the recent death, after a long illness, of Gearóid Lynch, a great chef and co-owner, with his wife Tara, of the delightful Co Cavan restaurant with rooms The Olde Post Inn
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In this time of apartment living and shortage of storage space, coming up with a book of recipes that covers a wide range of options but only needs one main cooking utensil - a 2lb/900g loaf tin – to do some tasty but no-fuss comfort cooking is a great idea...
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Going strong since 1993, The Irish Food Writers' Guild Food Awards were established with a simple aim: to celebrate indigenous Irish food products of the highest quality, and recognise some of the individuals, companies and initiatives which make the Irish food story such an exciting one. Over three decades later, that has not changed...
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Chef Ali Honour's lovely little book all about beans hit the shelves at the end of January and it couldn’t be more welcome. Having earned her place as Ireland’s Bean Queen thanks to her particular passion for these brilliant little power houses over many years, you could be forgiven for thinking that she eats little else and - while obviously not so, although it’s certainly possible - there’s no better woman to put the case for their extraordinary versatility...
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