‘Food is friend and foe of every freelancer, a companion and a constant distraction’
Ciara Kenny, journalist
‘You are what you hunt and gather. Most of this gluttonous adult life was spent deep inside a mustard-stained bread bin’
Gavin Cummiskey, sports journalist
‘If it’s any way nice, I’ll have it eaten by 10am and be starving by lunchtime. Nothing survives the mid morning dip – except carrots’
Orna Mulcahy, managing editor
‘Yesterday at lunch I was surrounded by a variety of homemade chilli, bolognese, soup, sandwiches and a very fancy Shakshuka’
Ciara Woods, advertising
‘The fridge is a holding cell. Fresh food dwells there, incarcerated in death row. That’s the short life it enjoys’
John Fleming, subeditor
‘I have an unconventional way of taking lunch to work: pasta in a sports water bottle that goes on my bike, the sauce I vac-pack, seal and slide into my cycling jersey’
Chris Carpenter, web designer
‘A lack of food has the same effect that gamma rays had on mild-mannered Dr Bruce Banner. Hulk angry, Hulk smash, Hulk start pointless arguments’
Patrick Nugent, assistant news editor
‘Woe betide anyone who gets between a sub and a pizza slice’
Kilian Doyle, assistant news editor on his office eating habits
Bog-standard sandwiches and Choc Mallows: lunch in my archaeological half-life
Joyce Hickey, Health editor
‘Twice this week, lunch was water – feeding the reporter isn’t in the contract’
Rosita Boland, journalist
‘The the key to eating well at work is preparation, preparation, preparation... and finding a victim to share lunch duties’
Rachel Collins, production editor
‘My main lunchtime ritual is wandering around the living room absentmindedly eating slices of ham’
Una Mullally, journalist
‘Sports journalists eat at press conferences, we eat on trains, we eat at service stations. We graze. We pick. We belch, if you’re lucky’
Malachy Clerkin, sports journalist
‘I’m not fond of lunchboxes . . . abandoned and out-of-shape, slightly grey or yellowing from Bolognese leftovers’
Sorcha Hamilton, production editor
‘I inhale food much like whales go about eating plankton. I’m not proud of this. Feck it. Yes I am’
Patrick Freyne, journalist
‘Recently I hit rock bottom: lunch was half a tub of gorgeous banana caramel Ben & Jerry’s’
Kate Holmquist, journalist
‘We creatures of the night in The Irish Times newsroom often have the good fortune to eat while we work’
David McKechnie, deputy chief sub-editor
‘It turns out tabbouleh is a lovely way to fill your boots at lunchtime’
Róisín Ingle, daily features editor and columnist
‘In my job I get to visit some extraordinary houses . . .
. . . . sadly, by the time I arrive the kitchen has been firmly closed to guests’ - Madeleine Lyons, property editor
‘The upside to food at work, and probably why I haven’t developed scurvy . . .
. . . is that I sit very close to a food writer’ Dominique McMullan, journalist
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