Ireland

Wine news in 5 Plus good news for Canadian consumers, an update on Ireland's cancer warnings and an alternative to SO 2 in the...

Drinks not wine From just two distilleries in the 1980s to nearly 40 today, Irish pot-still whiskey is back in a big and...

Wine news in 5 Plus Thailand's move towards loosening its extremely tight alcohol sales and advertising laws. Before we get to global news, I’ve...

Nick on restaurants A fond look back over the year. Above, one of Nick's favourite scenes from a year visiting restaurants around the...

Nick on restaurants A most unusual corner of literary Ireland in King's Cross. There are two ways to enjoy the cooking, hospitality and...

Don't quote me Warning: this will be one of my shortest diaries ever as nothing much happens in August, I’m delighted to say...

Nick on restaurants Two reasons why Kinsale in southern Ireland is a popular foodie destination. Above, Kinsale harbour, pictured by Eduardo Fonseca Arraes...

Nick on restaurants A superb, thoroughly unexpected, restaurant in West Cork. Above, the view from the garden at Dede at the Customs House...

Free for all Last week Ireland lost a consummate hospitality professional, Hazel Allen of Ballymaloe House Hotel near Cork. An email last Friday...

Nick on restaurants What six respected chefs learned from their mothers, each pictured below. Above, a young Isaac McHale of The Clove Club...

Nick on restaurants Some unlikely heroes have emerged in the pandemic. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Daniel...

Nick on restaurants Nick asks four sommeliers to describe their pandemic-affected 2020 and to recommend two wine discoveries of the year. Clockwise above...

Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. It was 3.30 in the afternoon and I was...

Nick on restaurants Sunday evenings present restaurateurs and hoteliers with a particular challenge that most of the former decline even to rise to...

Nick on restaurants A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. The city of Galway on the west coast of...

Nick on restaurants Myrtle Allen, who died yesterday at the age of 94 in the Cork University Hospital surrounded by her family, was...