Current News
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Our Latest Great Place to Stay & Eat - Trim Castle Hotel
03 February 2012
The lush wonderful lands of Co. Meath are aptly named the Royal County for they have attracted the great and the good down through the centuries including Empress Elizabeth of Austria, a noted beauty about whom the romantic movies ‘Sissi’ were made....
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Restaurant Review - I Return to the China Sichuan
31 January 2012
When you return to a place where you have previously had a bad experience and reported on it, there is an element of stepping into the dragon's den. You know that they are on edge when they see you, and I guess it is not a very comfortable experience a
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Born of the Earth but Heavenly in Inspiration
31 January 2012
Tony and Jackie Collins were not deterred in any way by the times we are in when they developed and opened their big new Red Earth Lifestyle....
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Restaurant Review - Pop Up Pyg
27 January 2012
Sex and the City seemed alive and well at Pop Up Pyg in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre as I observed a pair of Carrie Bradshaw lookalikes engrossed in themselves and one or 10 cosmopolitans each. There was nothing for it but for Mary and I to enter i
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Brasserie Le Pont
20 January 2012
Brasserie Le Pont is a new restaurant tucked away in the large basement of a Georgian House on Fitzwilliam Place close to Leeson Street. Its entrance belies its size, and a lot of dosh has been spent converting it into a modern brasserie of the neutral
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Bedlam
19 January 2012
Bedlam is the name of May Frisby’s fabulous ‘happening’ in Castle Market. I guess if I said her restaurant was bedlam she mightn’t be too happy but, as she has named it so herself, let me say it is organised buzzy bedlam with rather good food and a fun
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Restaurant Review - San Lorenzo's
17 January 2012
Temple Garner is the Godfather of New York style Modern Italian food! Having been originally at Il Primo, and the defunct Mermaid Café on Dame Street, Garner opened the New York style Modern Italian cuisine restaurant Town Bar
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MY NEW WHEAT FREE REGIME
16 January 2012
A lot of people have expressed interest in my wheat free regime and what I am eating. I don’t call it a diet because I am eating plenty of other foods. There is no simple answer to giving up wheat – it’s a bit like an addiction and you just have to go ‘
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MY NEW WHEAT FREE LIFE
09 January 2012
Having tried all kinds of weight-loss regimes, Lucinda O'Sullivan found giving up her morning toast worked.
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Restaurant Review - Salt@ Avoca - Monkstown
09 January 2012
The much-awaited opening of Avoca's new Food Market and Cafe in Monkstown came to pass in time for Christmas, and had the denizens of the borough eagerly jostling for parking places in fear of Dun Laoghaire Corporation's dreaded team of parking wardens..