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Joe McNamee

Cork

Senior Food Writer at Irish Examiner

Eats for pleasure/writes about it for money | Senior Food Writer @irish_examiner etc | Ringmaster @grubcircus | Member @FoodGuild |

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  • 1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Joe McNamee

    It was another mighty Munster showing in the West yesterday at the 2025 Euro-Toques Ireland Food Awards, held in Ashford Castle Estate, in Co Mayo, as three of seven awards on offer went to food producers from the Southern province with many other Munster producers amongst the nominees.

  • 2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Joe McNamee

    I recently attended a poignant and unusual funeral. Poignant, in that we were saying farewell to a man of 51, in the prime of life until diagnosed with motor neurone disease just five years ago. Unusual in how a removal became a full-blown celebration of a life, a spiritual potpourri of music, song, psalms and prayer as comforting as any traditional affair, multiple speakers eulogising a good man, including heart-fuelled speeches from his son, daughter and wife.

  • 2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Joe McNamee

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  • 3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Joe McNamee

    Back in the 70s, Cork farmer Declan Martin called into his local branch of the supermarket chains that were beginning to spring up around the country. He and wife Rosemary, growing vegetables since 1967 on their Waterfall Farm, just west of the city, were seeking more outlets and the branch manager was more than happy to stock their produce, to be delivered to the store each week.

  • 4 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Joe McNamee

    Aa I write this in late April, I am like most Gaels — bewitched by a mini-heatwave, drugged to the gills by endless sunshine, deluding myself that it will last forever. Shorts? Check. Sunnies? Check. Flipflops? Check. Cold beer, even on a school night? Check. And what shall we eat? Why, barbecue, of course.

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5 Apr 25

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6 Sep 24

RT @JillianBolger: Every week in Irish Examiner's Weekend we review an Irish hotel. The Hotel Examiner assesses everything from style + ser…

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