When Grainne O’Keefe was 15, her future ambitions weren’t extravagant or outlandish. She wanted a few moderately achievable things to occur in her life: to be happy, to live somewhere pleasant and decent with good friends, and to be gainfully employed as a chef. That hat-trick has been achieved but not without hard graft and personal […]

For a child whose recollection is blurry, certain memories can always trigger certain events. From going to school in Hong Kong, moving from there to Belgium (Antwerp), back to Hong Kong, and then, when the child is eight years of age, travelling to the town of Buncrana, County Donegal – for some people, this might

The kitchen, says television presenter Laura Woods, is “most definitely my friend, and has been for a decade.” She is certain of that time period, she adds, because the arrival of her first child in 2010 obliged her to reconsider her relationship with food. Many new parent has been here, of course: those spontaneous visits