News Archive
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'The Restaurant' at The Wineport - John Healy Special Event
27 May 2011
Ray Byrne, Jane English and the team at Wineport Lodge are throwing the bash of the year this June to assist their colleague and friend - the loveable Maitre D’- John Healy of RTE’s ‘The Restaurant’ who is seriously ill and requires a heart transplant.
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Rasam Indian Restaurant wins Best Ethnic Restaurant 2011
26 May 2011
For the second year running Nisheeth Tak's Rasam Indian Restaurant has won Best Ethnic Restaurant at the RAI/Sunday Independent Life Magazine Awards.
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Chapter One proves invincible
26 May 2011
Chapter One is to Irish Restaurants what Rafa Nadal is to the tennis courts of the world - invincible! Ross Lewis and his team have done it again with Chapter One winning Best Restaurant 2011. Well done guys!
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SOS - SAVE OUR SHOPS
25 May 2011
British Prime Minister David Cameron has taken the unprecedented step of appointing a retail expert, 'Queen of Shops' Mary Portas, to save the British high street. Ireland has a host a retailers and business people who could do a similar job for the mo
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WE NEED ACTION TO SAVE OUR HIGH STREET SHOPS
25 May 2011
Just as Mary 'Queen of Shops' Portas has been roped in to help the British government revive the flagging high streets and bring a bustle back to town centres, so too some Bridget Banrion of Boutiques is needed here to put a rocket under local authorities
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Restaurant Review - Pygmalion Restaurant at Parknasilla Resort
25 May 2011
Parknasilla Resort on the Ring of Kerry has long been one of the jewels in the crown of Irish Tourism. Built in the mid 18thC on a sub-tropical 500 acre estate, overlooking an inlet of the Kenmare River, with the Gulf Stream nibbling at its toes, it has
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - CODA
18 May 2011
Arriving for dinner with Houston based Paul, who spends his life flying from New York to Naples,Peking to Paris,Seoul to Sydney,he felt quite at home striding through the vast Hemidemisemiquaver Bar and on to the section that is Coda Eatery.“Good Airport"
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Burren Slow Food Festival This Weekend
18 May 2011
There will be lots of fun and activity at this weekends Burren Slow Food Festival in Clare. Check it Out.
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Mervyn Stewart & Her Majesty
10 May 2011
Having ‘Met the Middletons’ in all their glory in recent weeks, and with the Queen coming to grips with new additions to the family tree, it occurred to me that she might care to meet her long lost cousins, the Stewarts, when she comes to Ireland...
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Restaurant Review - Downstairs
10 May 2011
‘Downstairs’ is a new restaurant at Gilbert & Wright in Clontarf on sea, located where the old Hollybrook Hotel once stood. Gilbert & Wright have hip ‘1970’s style bars also in Malahide, Swords, and Dun Laoghaire. ‘Downstairs’, as you may gather, is a sub
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San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants
04 May 2011
Last week saw the announcement of the San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2011. What is quite extraordinary is not the fact that Rene Redzepi’s ‘Noma’, the much lauded restaurant in Copenhagen, has been voted No. 1 Restaurant in the World for the
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - ELECTRIC
04 May 2011
I guess it’s quite some time since a restaurant of size and import has opened in the centre of Cork, and on The Mall to boot. In recent times the focus for such openings had centered on Lapps Quay, with The Boardwalk Bar & Grill and Augustine’s joining t