Chef Recruitment Open Day at Fota Island Resort, Wednesday 27th August

Chef Recruitment Open Day at Fota Island Resort, Wednesday 27th August

The Cove Restaurant at Fota Island

Fota Island Resort is hosting a recruitment day for chefs of all levels on Wednesday

Business Networking Breakfast on Friday at Dunnes Stores Patrick Street. Great turnout.

Cathy Fitzgibbon, President, Network Ireland Cork,
and Lucy O'Donoghue, Lucy O'Donoghue Consulting,

 Business Networking Breakfast on Friday at Dunnes Stores, Patrick Street.

There was a great turnout at the new Foodhall on Patrick Street for Friday's Business Networking Breakfast.

Kate Lawlor, Head chef at O’Connell’s Fishmongers, did a cooking demo, while Donal

A Literary Love Match. Cultural Collaboration with MoLI and The College Green Hotel Dublin

  press release

A Literary Love Match

Announcing a Cultural Collaboration with MoLI and The College Green Hotel Dublin

 

PACKAGE OVERVIEW

• Two-night stay in a

We shall not be moved! Resilient. Brilliant. Midleton's Ferrit & Lee

We shall not be moved! Resilient. Brilliant. Ferrit & Lee

Midleton is a town packed with resilience, stirringly displayed in its collective reaction when its businesses and homes were hammered by Covid (2020-22) and the floods (October 2023). 

Featherblade

When local chefs Pat Ferriter and Stephen Lee took over the

Down Syndrome Cork Youth Club cook up a heartwarming evening at the Cornstore

Down Syndrome Cork Youth Club 

cook up a heartwarming evening at the Cornstore.

Beef cheek

It was billed as a “heartwarming evening at Cornstore Restaurant”. And it was that, and

Cork to Host Aeropress Championship. Skilled coffee makers to compete at Bakestone Café

Cork to Host Aeropress Championship for the First Time

Bakestone Café to Welcome Coffee Fans and Competitors this August

The Irish Aeropress Championship is coming to Cork for the first time this August, with the national event set to take place at the newly opened

Dingle’s Greenmount House. A great place to stay.

Dingle’s Greenmount House. A great place to stay.

Dingle Days 2025 #3

Not quite the Full Irish, adjusted slightly downwards on request. Beautifully cooked.
Look at that egg, just perfect. Sometimes, you could play Frisbee with the eggs.

I have stayed in a variety of hotels and other accommodations in Ireland over recent years and have no hesitation at all in putting Dingle’s Greenmount House at the top of the list. Here, thanks to the Curran family and staff, to the comfort of its rooms and public areas, to the excellence of its

Dingle Days 2025. #2. (Half Door dinner, Blennerville Windmill, Tralee Wetlands, Castlegregory, foggy Conor Pass).

Dingle Days 2025 #2 

Blennerville Windmill, Tralee Bay Wetlands (including Lakeside Café), Castlegregory, a foggy Conor Pass and dinner at Dingle’s Half Door.

Sweet finalé at Dingle's Half Door

An excellent dinner at the O’Connor family restaurant, The Half Door (next door to the long-established Doyle’s), brought a “busy” second day in

Blas na hÉireann Finalists 2025 Announced. Forty Cork producers in the mix at Dingle in October.

Blas na hÉireann Finalists 2025 Announced.

Forty Cork producers in the mix at Dingle in October.

Dingle Never Disappoints. Rí Fern at Louis Mulcahy’s, Clocher “Climb”, Dunquin Pier, and the fabulous Fish Factory

Dingle Days 2025. #1/3 

Rí Fern at Louis Mulcahy’s, Clocher “Climb” and Dunquin Pier, Dick Mack's and the fabulous Fish Factory

Dingle Never Disappoints

Prawn Curry at Fish Factory

A superb meal at the new restaurant, The Fish Factory, by Nicky and Ann Foley (already well known for Solas in the town), was the highlight of a "busy" first

Spotlight on Bia Beirut at Mahon Point Farmers Market, also Ballintubber Farm, Gubbeen and Emerald Mushrooms.

Spotlight on Bia Beirut at Mahon Point Farmers Market, also Ballintubber Farm, Gubbeen and

Don’t know your freekeh from your fattoush? Your maftoul from your mansaf? No worries. Jibrin has the answers.

Don’t know your freekeh from your

Anyone Remember Collecting Sardines At George's Quay, Cork (1950s)?

Collecting Sardines at George's Quay, Cork (1950s)

Both well dressed! Illustration AI generated.

No sardines today (July 2025)

Recently, while walking back from lunch at Izz Café, with our Basbouseh dessert safely boxed, we paused at the quay wall just opposite. Here, the steps that run down to the water revived memories for CL. Back in the 50s, she would be sent down from a nearby street on a special errand. At a specific time, a small boat would pull in, its floor covered in sardines. She paid a few pence, maybe a "tanner" (6 pence). The man wrapped the tasty little fishes in newspaper, and she made her way home to her Nana (a sardine lover, "bones and all").