Honoured for the second year running, Luttrellstown Castle was announced as Europe's Leading Luxury Wedding Resort 2024 at last night’s World Travel Awards in Berlin. Celebrating travel excellence since 1993, the World Travel Awards serve to acknowledge and reward best in class across all sectors of the global travel and tourism industry and is regarded as the travel industry’s leading awards. With this award under its belt, Luttrellstown [...]

Waterford Festival of Food, one of Ireland’s largest and longest running community food festivals, today launched their 2024 programme. Inspired by the theme of ‘Connecting People with Food’, more than 80 events are set to take place from 19th to 21st April 2024. The main hub for the 3-day festival is in the scenic harbour town of Dungarvan Co. Waterford with events also taking place in nearby [...]

The Irish Hotels Federation calls on the Government to act swiftly to offset the impact that Government policies are having on the operating costs of hospitality businesses. Responding to today’s Government report examining the cost increases for businesses arising from employment-related measures, IHF President Michael Magner stated that tourism and hospitality is now at a crossroads with Government-controlled costs having a disproportionate impact on businesses throughout the sector.* Mr [...]

Waterford’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations have been extended to run for over 4 days this year with a host of free activities and events on offer for the young and not-so-young from the city to the county. Waterford man Fr Luke Wadding was the founder of St. Patrick’s Day. When based in Rome in the 1630s it was he who was in charge of creating the official [...]

A variety of new guest accommodations are set to open at the Condé Nast tipped Mount Congreve Gardens in Waterford in late spring 2024. The estate’s main Gate Lodge, Damson was renovated and opened to visitors early 2023 and has been hugely popular with guests and the prestigious international travel magazine Condé Nast Traveller describes it as a ‘fairytale gate lodge’. The estate team now plan to add five [...]

Dromoland Castle in County Clare is delighted to announce the appointment of Gráinne O’Rourke as Marketing Manager. County Clare-born Gráinne has come full circle, having first experienced a taste of the hospitality industry in her very first job at the Inn at Dromoland, Dromoland Castle’s sister property, when she was just sixteen!  A graduate of NUI, Galway with a Bachelor of Commerce and a major in Marketing, [...]

Castle Leslie Estate is delighted to announce that they have been officially recognised as one of the Best Workplaces in Ireland™ in 2024. Castle Leslie Estate was recognised at the 22nd annual Great Place to Work Awards on Wednesday 28th February 2024. This is Castle Leslie Estate’s first year to be named as a top Irish workplace, which is based on direct feedback from employees, provided as part of [...]

Talks, workshops, tastings, are the goal of SommiT 23, a gathering of international experts & professionals who will discuss an array of topics, all pertinent to those working in today’s hospitality industry in Ireland. SommIT 23 is open to everyone involved in or working within the wine, food, retail, restaurant, resort, and hotel industry in Ireland. On Monday 9th October 2023, for the first time the Star [...]

“If the government did one thing with the multi billion budget for a positive impact on the environment, education and mental health all in one fell swoop; it would be to spend €1 million equipping the next generation with the knowledge to grow their own food.” This is the message from GIY Founder Michael Kelly ahead of the upcoming budget. In 2021, GIY first rolled out ‘GROW At [...]

The Wright Group has announced plans to significantly expand its successful Hogs & Heifers restaurant brand and is actively seeking new locations in Ireland and Northern Ireland.   The award-winning Irish hospitality group, owned by businessman Michael JF Wright, is planning on adding up to six new Hogs & Heifers outlets to the existing two and is now appealing to owners of potential venues to make contact.  [...]

The Trigon Hotel Group has launched a recruitment drive to fill up to 40 positions at The Metropole Hotel and Cork International Hotel.  A recruitment fair will be held at The Metropole Hotel, Cork City on Thursday, September 14th 2023 from 1pm to 7pm. The positions include a range of full and part-time flexible roles across all departments. The jobs may suit parents, students, graduates or anyone [...]

Butter Boy: Collected Stories & Recipes is the fifth cookbook by the chef, TV personality and Irish restaurateur Paul Flynn. Published by boutique Irish publishing house Nine Bean Rows, Butter Boy is the complete collection of all 152 articles and over 450 recipes from Paul Flynn’s tenure as food writer for the Irish Times from three unusual years, November 2019 to October 2022, a time when cooking [...]

The highly anticipated Lion’s Den competition is back for its sixth year, organised by Bradley: The Brand Agency in partnership with the four Local Enterprise Offices in the Dublin region. The event promises an exciting opportunity for budding and established food and beverage brands in Dublin. This year, there will be prizes under two categories: The Start-Up Award, for brands trading up to two years, and the [...]

Kilkenny’s Savour Food Festival is set to return from October 27-30 and the weekend is set to have most of its energy produced from bio-fuel, meaning that the festival’s sustainability will be even further enhanced this year. Events on the scale of Savour depend on electricity from generators to power the festival and outside of the transport of visitors to festivals, diesel generators are the biggest contributor [...]

Halloween will be a spooktacular experience at the Newpark Hotel in Kilkenny -where their seasonal celebrations are of prehistoric proportions!  Over the midterm break, your family can watch dinosaurs, ghouls and goblins come back to life on a terribly fun ‘wicked walk’ through the hotel’s famously family friendly attraction, Jurassic Newpark. The Wicked Walk activities include ghoulish face painting, halloween themed fun and games,  eerie dino talks [...]

Visitors to Waterford’s Harvest Festival this September 8th to 10th are invited to step into a world of culinary curiosity and thought-provoking discussions as GIY (Grow It Yourself) proudly presents a captivating lineup of talks and debates that delve into the heart of pressing food issues with a series of free talks on the ‘Food Matters’ stage, proudly sponsored by Waterford Chamber Skillnet. The food sustainability talks [...]

Dublin’s newest meeting and events venue, the Dublin Royal Convention Centre, adjacent to the new Le Pole Square is now open, under the same ownership as Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin and Velvære Spa — the final phase of significant development on this historical site. This latest addition to the stylish and sophisticated city centre hotel is a brand new, state of the art, purpose-built convention centre. Offering [...]

The words Buon appetito will be heard many times this September at the five-star InterContinental Dublin as the Hotel’s Executive Chef Alberto Rossi hosts an Italian pop-up restaurant offering guests and diners authentic and genuine Italian food and wine. Rossi's @Seasons will be open from the 7th until the 30th of September, every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 6pm to 9.30pm. Alberto, born in Milan to an Italian father and Irish mother, [...]

To celebrate Pride and the LGBTQ+ community in Ireland this June, the Hard Rock Hotel Dublin has teamed up with renowned Irish fashion designer Colin Horgan to re-imagine one of the hotel’s superior guest bedrooms with one very simple brief – Love Out Loud. The new room, which will open to the public on Dublin’s Lord Edward Street today, has been designed by Horgan to create a safe space that feels inclusive to everyone while paying [...]

SommiT is a gathering of food and wine professionals from within the hospitality industry. Attendees will include restaurant professionals both service and culinary, retail sales buyers and sellers, food and wine writers and broadcasters, hoteliers, wine importers and producers and their distributors. The event includes discussion and debate with international authorities in many and varied areas of hospitality. SommiT features an experiential Wine and Food Synergy workshop [...]

The Coburg announces the theme of its second Supper Club following the initial success of Conrad Dublin's destination restaurant. Continuing the series with a focus on gin lovers, the 5-star hotel restaurant invites food enthusiasts to join the event, either dining solo or in groups, and enjoy a thoughtfully curated evening of food and gin in a comfortable and convivial setting with like-minded individuals. Guests can look forward to a three-course dinner menu crafted by Executive Head [...]

President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins together with his wife Sabina were honoured guests of the Imperial Hotel, Cork City at the weekend. The President was on an official visit to Cork to mark the National Day of Commemoration which is traditionally observed on the Sunday closest to June 11th to tie in with the anniversary of the 1921 truce.  Checking in on Saturday 8th July, President Higgins stayed [...]

Kilkenny’s much loved Newpark Hotel has announced the appointment of a new general management team to steer the 4-star property towards its ambitious future goals. The strategic appointments will see Niall Dunne, who previously held the role of Deputy Manager, and Mark Flynn, a highly experienced hospitality professional and member of the Flynn family, take up the shared general management role. The third-generation family run hotel, which [...]