Jam-packed programme for 10-day celebration of food and drink

Eat fish but not meat? A fintastic menu in February will make your weekend in Co Mayo

A Michelin star is the pinnacle for many chefs – but often there is a price to be paid

There's more to the picnic than the main stage

Plus: Clodagh McKenna demonstrates breadmaking; west Cork gears up for its annual food festival; and Italian chef Alberto Magnano gives a pasta masterclass

No objections received by city council to application, which grants change of use to retail

Marie-Claire Digby rounds up this week's food news

We asked chefs from Michelin-starred Irish restaurants to tackle five fantastic courses

The weekly food news round-up from Marie-Claire Digby

Top eateries report significant improvement in business after ‘a nightmare five years’

Interview: Four years ago McFadden, from Tallaght, was made London’s youngest Michelin-starred chef – not bad for someone who was told by Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud that he wouldn’t make it

Humanist ceremony held in crowded Examination Hall at Trinity College Dublin

Derry Clarke, Ross Lewis, Kevin Thornton, Michel Roux Jr to feature at food festival

Lords & Ladles is a new cookery show where Irish chefs recreate what it was like to prepare food in a 17th century big house

Food festival season continues this month, with gardening, design and literary events featuring lots of edible elements

A series in which people help to pen their own obituaries: ‘O’Nuallain was a trained chef who got out of the kitchen, and a dyslexic geography teacher who discovered the world’

Lights, camera, cooker – keeping the show on the road

Winners of 21st IFWG awards are among the most hard working and visionary food producers in Ireland

The ‘Sunday Times’ food critic slated one of Ireland’s most respected restaurants – but loved the Farmgate Cafe, in the English Market in Cork

Butlers chocolate classes, Glebe Brethan cheese, Stript Snacks and fairtrade African goodies

‘If they were to rip that lower VAT rate from under us now there would be job losses’

We listened, we watched, we tasted, we argued: here’s our pick of the Picnic’s best bits

Line-up includes Beck, Portishead, Outkast, Chic and Pet Shop Boys, with weather set to improve as weekend progresses

Pet Shop Boys headline Friday, Chic pip Portishead to the top Saturday night spot, and you’ll have to stick around to the bitter end to catch Beck and Outkast

Music festival offers fine dining in a Victorian marquee

Restauranteur Derry Clarke says he wants to ‘save other families from grief’

RTÉ Radio 1’s phone-in, hosted by an election-fatigued Philip Boucher-Hayes, is high on opinion but low on coherence. For a quietly devastating talk, tune in to John Murray’s talk with Derry Clarke of l’Ecrivain Restaurant

L’Ecrivain celebrity chef Derry Clarke has teamed up with several other kitchen warriors for a 700km charity cycle through France later this year

Lifetime achievement award for Myrtle Allen of Ballymaloe House on her 90th birthday

Attendance hoped to reach 30,000 during June 12th-15th festival at Iveagh Gardens

Dine before you fly

Problem is much bigger than people realise, says bereaved restaurateur Derry Clarke