Category: Interviews

“Pasta! I cook a lot of pasta mainly because I have a three-and-a-half-year-old who loves her pasta. My mum frowns about this and asks me why am I not making her rice. But she...

Holly Carpenter knows all about pressure. She was, after all, a 19-year-old when, as a design student in NCAD, she experienced a marked change in her life: she entered the Miss Ireland contest and...

Niall Sabongi sounds as if he’s out of breath. It is, he says with barely any prompting, “a bit hectic these days.” We hear you, Niall, we hear you. For the past few months,...

When Simon Delaney – busy actor and established presenter of the Virgin Media One morning show, Weekend AM – says that food is his favourite topic, he means it. This is no glib or...

Career life choices can be tricky things. Some people steer themselves far away from their family influences, while others are, you might say, born into what they eventually make a living from. Take Catherine...

It’s a truism as much as cliché to say that good things come to those who wait, but when it comes to Graham Herterich and his partner Daithi Kelleher, that their small-acorn-big-oak ideas of...

“A good place to start,” offers Ciara Kelly, “is to say that I love it.”  As a broadcaster and newspaper columnist (and as if we could ever let her forget, a former GP), Ciara...

It is a rarity that as a child we know with absolute certainty what we want to be when we grow up, but Wade Murphy did. The chatty chef/proprietor of 1826 Adare says there...

We can’t quite believe this, but we have just asked Rory O’Connell a question that he fails to answer in full. This is unusual because Rory is the kind of person that can start...

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...

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 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...

You might have thought it inevitable that someone with an upbringing that revolved around food, food produce/development, restaurants and (in general) making sure that people’s eating requirements were looked after would be a shoo-in...

In 2019, before you-know-what took over our lives, our thoughts and our sleeping patterns, Galway’s Gráinne Mullins was on the way up-and-up following her skilled dessert-making stints at the likes of Ashford Castle and...

It’s never too late, but try telling that to an ambitious 25-year-old. If you are Ahmet Dede, however, being late to the party (so to speak) isn’t as much of a disadvantage as it...

“It came as a huge surprise. When they told me over a Zoom call that they wanted to give me the award I was really blown away. It was quite emotional, to be honest.”...