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Restaurateurs Derry and Sallyanne Clarke had planned to close in July after 31 years in business
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Margot Slattery of Sodexo Ireland on female representation, LGBT leadership and cooking
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Feast your way through Electric Picnic with the Theatre of Food
For €120 you can ditch the stand-up, food-to-go options, and instead sit down to a five-course banquet
Top Irish chefs go head-to-head in new RTÉ series
Resistance and rebellion as dietician takes control of restaurants’ signature dishes
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Each week until December 25th, we’ll be bringing you a selection of recipe suggestions to help you plan an epic festive feast
Calories, nutrition, mindfulness: what Foodology students learn
The MSc students learn about portion control, hospital food and mindful eating
Islands, offal and a bicycle buffet on the menu for West Cork food festival
Jam-packed programme for 10-day celebration of food and drink
A pescatarian paradise in the west
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Ireland's top chefs on the allure and danger of Michelin stars
A Michelin star is the pinnacle for many chefs – but often there is a price to be paid
Electric Picnic stage times: Electric Arena, Cosby, Little Big, Theatre of Food and more
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Discount retailer Dealz to open in former Epicurean Food Hall
No objections received by city council to application, which grants change of use to retail
Let our five Michelin-starred chefs plan your Christmas dinner
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Food file: New chef at Fallon & Byrne, baking classes in Sligo, tea time hotel treats
The weekly food news round-up from Marie-Claire Digby
Ireland’s Michelin-starred restaurants celebrate upturn
Top eateries report significant improvement in business after ‘a nightmare five years’
Andy McFadden, Michelin man: ‘I kept getting flashbacks to Guilbaud’s’
Interview: Four years ago McFadden, from Tallaght, was made London’s youngest Michelin-starred chef – not bad for someone who was told by Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud that he wouldn’t make it
Tributes paid to chef and critic Paolo Tullio at funeral
Humanist ceremony held in crowded Examination Hall at Trinity College Dublin
Taste of Dublin gets started under cloudless skies
Derry Clarke, Ross Lewis, Kevin Thornton, Michel Roux Jr to feature at food festival
Eyeballs and pigs’ heads anyone?
Lords & Ladles is a new cookery show where Irish chefs recreate what it was like to prepare food in a 17th century big house
Select: From literature to design – with all you can eat in between
Food festival season continues this month, with gardening, design and literary events featuring lots of edible elements
My Obituary: Fearghal O’Nuallain, an Irish explorer who cycled the globe
A series in which people help to pen their own obituaries: ‘O’Nuallain was a trained chef who got out of the kitchen, and a dyslexic geography teacher who discovered the world’
Having good food on location, as Jeremy Clarkson might tell you, is very important
Lights, camera, cooker – keeping the show on the road
Food File: Provenance is priority at food writers’ awards
Winners of 21st IFWG awards are among the most hard working and visionary food producers in Ireland
Ballymaloe ballyhoo: did AA Gill’s bad restaurant review do serious damage?
The ‘Sunday Times’ food critic slated one of Ireland’s most respected restaurants – but loved the Farmgate Cafe, in the English Market in Cork
Food file: the weekly food news round-up
Butlers chocolate classes, Glebe Brethan cheese, Stript Snacks and fairtrade African goodies
Hotelier says he opened new cafe because of the lower VAT rate
‘If they were to rip that lower VAT rate from under us now there would be job losses’
‘The Ticket’s’ Electric Picnic 2014 Awards
We listened, we watched, we tasted, we argued: here’s our pick of the Picnic’s best bits
Electric Picnic gives first glimpse of weekend’s fare
Line-up includes Beck, Portishead, Outkast, Chic and Pet Shop Boys, with weather set to improve as weekend progresses
Electric Picnic Main Stage line-up, and some fine dining options
Pet Shop Boys headline Friday, Chic pip Portishead to the top Saturday night spot, and you’ll have to stick around to the bitter end to catch Beck and Outkast
Electric Picnic to host suicide prevention event
Restauranteur Derry Clarke says he wants to ‘save other families from grief’
Radio: Hazy ‘Liveline’ logic about why Labour isn’t working
RTÉ Radio 1’s phone-in, hosted by an election-fatigued Philip Boucher-Hayes, is high on opinion but low on coherence. For a quietly devastating talk, tune in to John Murray’s talk with Derry Clarke of l’Ecrivain Restaurant
Beware: chefs on bikes
L’Ecrivain celebrity chef Derry Clarke has teamed up with several other kitchen warriors for a 700km charity cycle through France later this year
Cork entries sweeps the boards at food writers’ awards
Lifetime achievement award for Myrtle Allen of Ballymaloe House on her 90th birthday
Taste of Dublin event has fire pit, bake-off - and cheaper tickets
Attendance hoped to reach 30,000 during June 12th-15th festival at Iveagh Gardens
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