🍁 SEAMUS HEANEY Died on this day, in 2013 “Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot . . . Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking”

Exciting times as our judges visit restaurants all over the country for our 2024 awards. @castleknockhotel will again host the awards on October 22nd celebrating multicultural Ireland through its food. Pictured are some of last years winners; BIGFAN and Kinara Group ✨🏆

Really looking forward to this at the weekend! I’m judging there for the National Organic Awards so very exciting to see what products come out on top! 🏆🌱 Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Israel Katz, Netanyahu's Foreign Affairs Minister, calls for "temporary evacuation" of Palestinians in the West Bank- aka Ethnic Cleansing. This should be a major 🚨 klaxon🚨 for the international community, especially those like Keir Starmer & David Lammy who continue to

This fundraising is truly having such an impact already. So excited to see what this next chapter holds - all thanks to your generosity over the last five years. Dad’s legacy gains more meaning with each stride we make towards tackling pancreatic cancer 🤍

Congratulations John and well deserved 👏🏻👏🏻

Tomorrow on CountryWide; can the Irish wool industry be revived? I meet Zoe Daly and Lionel Mackey from Eriu wool business tomorrow on CountryWide RTÉ Radio 1 Irish Grown Wool Council 🐑

Wonderful lunch The Merrion Hotel’s The Garden Room, an oasis in the city. Great to see so much Irish produce and seafood: scallops, tuna carpaccio, sole, sea bass and more from Glenmar Seafood and Kish Fish #thisisirishfood #pressinvite

Judging for the National Organic Awards (eating all around me) at the Organic Food Fair in Merrion Square #Dublin. Such beautiful #Irishfood and great producers Organic Trust Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board

The minute the barley goes out the gate we’re in 🤣 🏇🏻🏇🏻

Yes it’s great! Loads of very good food available, food producers to buy products from, demos with Clodagh McKenna (4pm) amongst others on the cookery stage. A kids stage and more. It’s like a lovely relaxed mini festival Organic Trust Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board #NationalOrganicFoodFair

This is a textbook case of ethnic cleansing, but this is how the BBC describes it. Pathetic.

We’ve nearly four million sheep in Ireland but wool is seen by most farmers as valueless. One couple in #wicklow are changing this with Romney and Blue Faced Leicester sheep - eiru.eu Irish Grown Wool Council Listen back: CountryWide rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

One of the most important books on #IrishFood and farming ever. Incredible span of history and research, edited by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dr Dorothy Cashman. Also incredible value at €45. It’s the history of ourselves from bog butter to Swift to Myrtle Allen. Huge achievement

Suzanne Campbell Dr Dorothy Cashman Royal Irish Academy Darina Allen Dr. John D. Mulcahy Prof Bryce Evans John McCafferty Claudia Kinmonth MRIA FSA PhD MA(RCA) BTecHND Food Guild IRE Will be a 'must read'! (particularly in the context of modern Ireland, where so much Ultra Processed Food Stuffs are 'consumed', while our land is still producing the best food in the World). Perhaps time to learn from those who came before us. #Ireland, the fresh food island.

"People need to take responsibility for every horse you breed or every horse you own. We need to think, what's the plan for the end of this horse's life?” Such an important outlook - Caoimhe Doherty and Sarah Sands have done an amazing job with TREO EILE, Retraining Ireland's Racehorses🏇🏻 theirishfield.ie/racing/racing-…

It all sounds terrifyingly familiar to anyone who has read the British press reacting to the great Indian Uprising/Mutiny of 1857. Exactly the same dehumanisation of anyone who dare resist the subjugation of the conquerors

The Pelicot case is the most horrific rapes I’ve ever read but I can’t stop thinking about this part. For years, she went to doctors for answers about memory loss. She must have felt like she was losing her mind. And her husband sat right next to her, knowing he was drugging her.

Murdered. She was murdered.