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Author: Lucy Madden

This month Lucy Madden considers with a mixture of sadness and wry amusement some of the consequences that follow high jinks and disrespect for historic properties and antiques - and urges culrpits to ‘Fess up’ or be remembered with contempt.
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Potato Vodka

Author: Barbara Collins

Barbara Collins, introduces Ireland’s first potato vodka, recently launched by Hughes Craft Distillery
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Black Donkey Brewing Sheep Stealer Irish Farmhouse Ale - Beer of the Month

Author: Kristin Jensen

KRISTIN JENSEN, co-author of Slainte! The complete Guide To Irish Craft Beers and Ciders, introduces us to ‘ the little black dress of beer’, the Black Donkey Brewing Sheep Stealer Irish Farmhouse Ale - and a pair of brewers who are particularly interested in working with chefs to align their beers with food.
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An Irish Chef in France

Author: Martin Dwyer

Euro-Toques chef Martin Dwyer, is much missed in Ireland since he and his wife Sile sold their eponymous restaurant in Waterford and moved to France. They now live in the Languedoc, where they take guests - and feed them very well. This month: Martin extols the joys of the mouthwateringly delicious summer fruits in the South of France
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Word from the West

Ronan Byrne, aka, the Friendly Farmer with Bess, the Pyrenean Mountain Dog

Author: Anne Marie Carroll

This month Anne Marie Carroll introduces some very special East Galway dogs - livestock guardian dogs are an ancient solution to a common farming problem.
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Wild Strawberries - In Season

Author: Georgina Campbell

Wild strawberries, Fragaria Vssca, the woodland strawberry or fraises des boi,s grow abundantly all over the northern hemisphere and their small, but sweet and intensely aromatically flavoured, fruits are produced generously over a long season - it will surprise many who think of strawberries as a fruit of high summer, that they continue to fruit well into autumn (in season from June to late September).
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Grow It Yourself - July

Author: Michael Kelly

French beans are, I think, one of the most underrated of vegetables. Of all the legume family, they are my favourite to eat, more desirable to my mind than runner beans, broad beans and perhaps even peas.
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This Farming Life - July on Castlefarm

Author: Jenny Young

What it means to be an organic farmer in Ireland today … Jenny Young writes about life and work on an organic mixed farm in Co Kildare - and selling its produce
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Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for June - Murphs Tavern

Author: Just Ask

Siblings Michael and Laura Cashman took over the lease of this famous waterside pub in 2012 and it’s a really pleasant spot - very well kept, but simple and appropriate. The welcome note on the front of the menu explains their aims...
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Georgina Campbell's Cookery Feature - Chicken: Fillets Not the Only Meat

Author: Georgina Campbell

How often do you eat chicken? It is by far the most popular meat in Ireland, accounting for about a third of the nation’s total meat consumption, so the chances are you eat it several times a week. And the demand for chicken breast fillets in Ireland is extraordinarily high compared to other parts of Europe.
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