Spiceburger saved:The spice burger has been on a bit of a rollercoaster ride over the last few weeks. When the Finglas-based company which makes them announced they were going out of business, there was uproar on blogs and bulletin boards, and the story stayed amongst the most read on irishtimes.com for days.

Well, it looks like the furore may have saved the spiceburger –for now. Last Friday it was confirmed that Walsh Family Foods, the sole manufacturers of spiceburgers, which closed four weeks ago, has been allowed by receivers KPMG to partially reopen to make the burgers, with the re-employment of 20 staff.