Drinks giant anticipates a return to overall sales growth next year

With the Covid-19 pandemic raging, more than 100,000 already opened kegs of beer and cider lay idle for weeks in the cellars of Irish bars and pubs.

There is no doubt our climate is changing and while weather shouldn?t be confused with climate the fires in Australia have focused a lot of minds.

Geoff Percival US investment giant BlackRock has built up a 4% stake in Irish drinks group, C&C.

I?ve written about Puglia, Sicily, and even Calabria frequently but much less about Basilicata and Campania, both small wine regions but not to be dismissed.

Shares in C&C rose over 3% as the sales of Tennent?s lager in Britain and Bulmers cider in Ireland held up relatively well at the half-way stage, as the company gets through the Brexit uncertainty

Discovering the joys of the Monaghan and Armagh landscapes while venturing north, comes highly-recommended by Noel Baker

We catch up with Bushmills? master distiller, who tells Sam Wylie-Harris more about this liquid gold.

One Pot Feeds All? my 19th cookbook has just arrived in shops around the country. There I am, smiling off the front cover.

Esther McCarthy meets the people whose job it is to give tourists that special Irish welcome.