Food File: From plastic-free parties to waterproof recipes and live yoghurt pots

Best of Irish: In advance of St Patrick’s Day, we celebrate leading lights of our creative industries

In the first of a new series in association with Jaguar Land Rover, Ballymaloe’s Rachel Allen and journalist Liz Dwyer take a road trip around east Cork to visit some of the celebrity chef’s favourite local spots

Kevin Dundon, Maria Raftery and Rory O’Connell on how less is definitely not more

From bashing gold to slipping and scoring, you can pack a lot into 48 hours in the craft capital of Ireland

Research suggests Brexit may unpick peace process and weaken human rights

The singer on her favourite gadget, and why she loves Maeve Higgins and Caravaggio

The Ballymaloe founder’s family and colleages share stories of the cook and campaigner

Food File: Festival of food, Nespresso pens, Buddha Bowls and World Oceans Day

The ever-polite Rory O’Connell presents honest recipes with donnish enthusiasm

Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver all feature in our 2017 top-10

An animated Frank McCourt story, a Fairytale of New York doc and Mrs Brown

Here’s the second tranche of stage times for the Stradbally festival

A former Donegal bank has been restored as a family home with fittings from around the world – and the kitchen has a new lease of life as a cookery school

The food festival, which created some great memories last weekend, is taking a one-year break

This year’s food and drink extravaganza in Co Cork will be looking at the bigger picture

Food festival to place new emphasis on sustainability and responsibility rather than literature

Bank holiday weekend food festival has big plans for its 10th birthday celebrations this week

A new book charts the 1,000-year history of the grand country house

With hundreds of events taking place at the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food & Wine this weekend, it helps to know where everything is, and where to eat, drink and make merry