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Posted on Sep 7, 2011 in Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: The art and the business of bees

Lyric fm: The art and the business of bees
We eat a lot of honey at the cottage. The Husband is a particular fan of it on toast for breakfast and Little Missy always loves to get her fingers sticky with a corner of what he’s eating. We know better than most where that honey comes from. On a good, warm day we’re normally lucky enough to...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Cloud Festival

Lyric fm: Cloud Festival
When I travelled to the first Irish Cloud Festival which took place in Skibbereen at the end of June, I was wearing two hats. The car was loaded up with cases of Sunburnt Irish Red from Eight Degrees Brewing for delivery to the West Cork Hotel, where we had held a beer and food matching event earlier that...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2011 in Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh at Mitchelstown Cave

Lyric fm: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh at Mitchelstown Cave
If you haven’t been able to get your hands on tickets for the sell-out Cork Opera House Cave concerts in Mitchelstown Cave, you can get a feel for the event from this piece I did for Lyric fm’s Culture File. Both concerts may be sold out but you can catch Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh touring in...
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Posted on Jul 15, 2011 in Do, Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Paddle your own canoe

Lyric fm: Paddle your own canoe
Last month, during the Lismore Festival Of Travel Writing, I interviewed author Jasper Winn on the Blackwater. Jasper is the author of Paddle: A Long Way Around Ireland, in which he writes about his experiences of circumnavigating the  Irish coastline by sea-kayak – during what just happened to be...
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Posted on May 12, 2011 in Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Foraging

Lyric fm: Foraging
When the first faint scent of wild garlic wafts through the spring air, many people’s thoughts turn to foraging. And this year there is more of an interest in wild food than ever before, as Copenhagen’s Noma – the menu of which has foraged food at the heart of its menu – has been named as the...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 in Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: The Sacred Harp and Dinner-on-the-Grounds

Lyric fm: The Sacred Harp and Dinner-on-the-Grounds
Somehow I can manage to get food into most reports that I do for Lyric fm‘s Culture File! Ireland’s first Sacred Harp Convention took place in University College Cork over the first weekend in March. I was there, recording and enjoying the singing – but also asking people...
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Posted on Feb 18, 2011 in Radio, Work | 8 comments

Lyric fm: Going underground for dinner – underground dining in Ireland

Lyric fm: Going underground for dinner – underground dining in Ireland
My Culture File report on underground dining in Ireland, featuring Lilly Higgins’ Loaves and Fishes Supper Club and the Clonakilty by Candlelight pop-up restaurant events, is now available as a Lyric fm podcast. Thanks to all my interviewees for their help, especially the Queens of Neon, Ted Berner...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2010 in Radio, Work | 3 comments

Lyric fm: Today’s Special at the Cork Film Festival

Lyric fm: Today’s Special at the Cork Film Festival
My Culture File report for Lyric fm on the Slow Food screening of Today’s Special during this year’s Cork Film Festival is now online and can be listened to here. Each year the Cork Film Festival, in collaboration with Slow Food Cork, screens a food-related film. It’s a popular event,...
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Posted on Oct 27, 2010 in Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Miss Courtney’s Tearooms

Lyric fm: Miss Courtney’s Tearooms
Antique china teacups and linen tablecloths at the ready! My Culture File report on Miss Courtney’s Tearooms and a return to the gentle act of taking tea will be broadcast on Lyric fm 96-99fm this evening at approximately 6.40pm. Picture of Sandra Dunlea courtesy of www.misscourtneys.com Updated 31...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2010 in Food Events, Radio | 2 comments

Lyric FM: McCarthy’s Black Pudding

Lyric FM: McCarthy’s Black Pudding
There was a rich, savoury smell in the autumn air as a band marched down the crowded streets of Kanturk, leading a white and crimson velvet-gowned troup. The members of the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Black Pudding, or La Confrérie des Chevaliers du Goûte Boudin, had travelled from France to pay...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2010 in Grow, Radio | 2 comments

Newstalk: More turkey

Newstalk: More turkey
These turkeys have legs! After a call from a Newstalk researcher on Friday, I was on the Tom Dunne show yesterday morning, talking about keeping – and harvesting – turkeys for Christmas. You can listen from here and my interview starts about 21 minutes in. And the picture? That’s one of my...
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Posted on May 4, 2010 in Food Events, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 3 comments

No win for Foodtalk at Media Awards

No win for Foodtalk at Media Awards
So, we didn’t win last night – but, as my producer said, that doesn’t mean that we aren’t great! An Australian show – The Main Ingredient: New Years Day, which was presented by Kelli Brett and produced by ABC Radio – took the 2010 Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Award...
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Posted on May 3, 2010 in Food Events, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 2 comments

World Food Media Awards

World Food Media Awards
Today’s the day when the results of the 2010 World Food Media Awards will be announced in Adelaide. Fingers crossed for Foodtalk: Spices and the other Irish...
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Posted on Apr 16, 2010 in Food Events, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 2 comments

World Food Media Awards – Other Irish nominees

World Food Media Awards – Other Irish nominees
After I recovered from the excitement of the Foodtalk: Spices nomination in the Best Food/Drink Radio Programme for this year’s Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards – it’s taken a while! – I found a few fellow Irish nominees on the list. Two RTÉ-produced television programmes...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2010 in Food Events, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 8 comments

Foodtalk’s Spices up for World Food Media Award!

Foodtalk’s Spices up for World Food Media Award!
There was big excitement at the cottage when I learned that Spices, one of the Foodtalk documentaries that I presented for Newstalk, is a nominee for the 2010 Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards! These awards celebrate the very best in international food publishing and broadcasting. With a total of 700...
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