A goose was Ireland’s traditional Christmas bird; this week I headed to Darina Allen in Ballymaloe #Cork to learn more on their history, scarity and learn how to cook one. All on Countrywide on @rteradio1.bsky.social tomorrow #irishfood 🍴🎄

More wonderful wins for this fantastic book which won our 2025 Food History and Heritage Award #IrishBooks #foodhistory #ireland www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41...

#wicklow today. At least the monsoon-like rain has stopped for few hours. This is a barely field harvested in September, with crop coming up again in the warm temperatures

We really need to win this 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 #coybig

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Oh god.. it was inevitable #AI #mentalhealth

#Rye is the grain of the moment with 1000 hectares more planted this year than in 2024. I visit Dunsany Farm and Mill in #Louth to talk about growing rye, and McNallys farm shop to eat their gorgeous #rye foods. On CountryWide @rteradio1.bsky.social tomorrow morning 🌾

Ireland has too many deer, so why don’t we eat more #venison? This and other aspects of our new deer management strategy will be explored in a panel discussion I’m chairing in the FRS tent at the National Ploughing Championships at 11.30am #ploughing2025

Coming up in #cork; lots of Irish food writers, chefs and food producers on stage for Feast Cork in #Middleton this Sunday @deelaffan.bsky.social

Beautiful meal on the terrace of The Unicorn #Dublin. Beautiful Irish Scallops 👌🏻👌🏻

Depending on where you are in Ireland, tomorrow is variously called: Garland Sunday, Reek Sunday, Sunday of the New Potatoes, Bilberry Sunday (& many other names) and it’s the start of Lughnasa! Read more in my piece for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Urgent: dont eat any supermarket ready meals before you check this list; Irish #listeria outbreak m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

Wonderful seeing chef and campaigner @chefjoseandres.bsky.social of @wck.org in Ireland enjoying Portrush and the wonderful Lír Seafood 🙌🏻❤️ #IrishFood #AnthonyBourdain #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

As we begin the quarter-finals of the EUROs today, it’s amazing to see the record breaking numbers of the group stages! 461,582 people attended the group stage games in Switzerland this year - the most ever at any women’s EUROs!

Any restaurant recommendations for #LaRochelle 🙏🏻 🇫🇷🍴

Tomorrow on Countrywide on RTE Radio I report from New Leaf Urban farm #Limerick. Using #KoreanNaturalFarming methods, Kevin Wallace grows award-winning salad leaves and veg which is sold to Aware Manor and also the local Spar ✨🌱

Delighted to be at the launch of a new BA in Sustainable Butchery and Gastronomy at MTU #Cork. In the same way sommeliers champion wine, ambassadors in butchery can shout about how great #Irishbeef is. Not surprisingly Pat Whelan of James Whelan Butchers played a big part in this 👏🏻✨

Thank god sense has prevailed at last #GAA #womeninsport

When the sun is finally evident, this person finally decides to move off the sofa and on to the floor 🙄

Want to develop a local food or rural #festival? Funding available in the Small-Scale Local Festivals and Summer Schools Scheme, maximum grant is €5k. Closing date is April 4th, 2025. bit.ly/41q2FYs

🙌🏻 William Dalrymple and Anita Anand’s @empirepoduk.bsky.social is unbelievably good. I’ve learned so much about India, Iran and Middle East already. Now they turn their attention to #Ireland. This is going to be AMAZING 🔥 #irishhistory #historypodcast #colonialism

Is your child getting a hot school dinner? Why is the quality great in some schools and then the opposite in others? My report yesterday for @rte.ie Radio 1 #irishfood #irishfood www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

A nice object I spotted earlier. It's a glass dedicated to 'Captain Napper Tandy.' Hard to make out in the cabinet but certainly 18th c. and of interest to any Irish/Dublin historians I'dimagine, if any followed me, which they don't of course! ...

The tractors in #Dublin tractor protests are definitely less fancy €€€ #London #JohnDeere

Madness #Trump

This is either heaven or your worst nightmare Fancy a pint in the local Lidl? 🛒🍻 news.sky.com/story/lidl-w...

What a fantastic book and never more timely! Big congratulations @braciatrix.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻 🍻❤️ #irishbeer #irishwomen #irishhistory

Urgent! Anyone got a 8+ KVA generator near Knock or Claremorris #Mayo they could lend to for Velvet Cloud for their #sheep #irishfarming

After our huge eucalyptus came down in storm Daragh, hoping nothing can top that 🙄 #praying #stormeowyn

As best you can, ignore him.

When your neighbours drop in the good stuff ❤️✨ #venison #wicklow 🦌

When you’ve torn up your bed and have to pretend to be guilty

Glad to see this lot gone. In 2019 they tried to get me on a food press trip to Israel. I pointed out they’d held me at the border last time I traveled through Israel. And promoting apartheid is not my thing. But other Irish went. All these regimes eventually fall and this one will too. Help it fall

Over on our Insta.. the #cookbooks, #recipes and #IrishFood books we loved this year🍴#foodwriting

Have a smallholding or planning to grow food or farm? Brilliant handbook on managing land to enhance habitats and wildlife, and produce great food while safeguarding both environment and rural communities www.farmingfornature.ie 🌱 #thisisirishfood

Beer and Irish History in one great package. Coming soon from Dr Christina Wade and 9 Bean Row Books - “Filthy Queens” 🍻🍻 #IrishBooks

Thanks so much Tykillen Farm for the beautiful beeswax and honey gifts! Honey with this quality is exceptional! They also produce great horses and lamb on the farm #Wexford 🐝🐴🐑

New investigation showing how data centres are turning to fossil fuels to generate electricity:

#IrishWhiskey suggestions?

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Concrete positive impact from Nikita Hand’s case against #ConorMcGregor. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Word of the day is ‘hibernacle’ (18th century): a hibernating animal’s winter retreat. I believe it works on a human level too.

What a job! 🦅

Very wet conditions still today in #Wicklow. Any good #equestrian accounts on here? 🐴

Our four new hens arrived from an indoor barn two days ago. We never bring hens in normally but they would not go in their house and feathers were freezing

Thanks so much James Whelan Butchers for sponsoring our Outstanding Achievement Award which was presented this year to senior food writer, editor (and legend!) formerly of @irishtimes.bsky.social - @marieclairedigby.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🏆✨#IFWA24

Dynamic pricing… expect to see more of it in food, drink, transport and just about everything €€€

The measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives over the past 50 years, and it plus vaccines against 13 other pathogens have cut infant mortality by 40 percent and saved 154 million lives. 154 MILLION LIVES 🧪 Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...