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THERE’S nothing so simple that somebody can’t complicate it. Last week Britain’s Guardian newspaper produced a small magazine on how to prepare breakfast. It devoted
THE first item on an Irish political agenda is The Split, said Brendan Behan, and the Left has always done its best to prove him
FRANCHE Comté is a region of Burgundy close to the border with Switzerland. For centuries, control swung between France, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.
WHEN Jack Charlton brought the Irish football team back from its first international tournament, the Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, made him an honorary Irishman. It was
I HAVE an instinctive, and probably somewhat snobbish, preference for European wines over those from the Americas, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In particular, I
IN February 2015, the Government announced its intention to curb the sale of cheap booze by introducing minimum pricing. It also said it would bring
DO people still do wine and cheese parties? They used to be very trendy but, then, so did spats, cravats and deerstalker hats. All the
WHERE does milk come from? Straight from the fridge, said 18 per cent of British schoolchildren interviewed for a recent study. And they weren’t trying
WE all go through periods when we burn the candle at both ends. I certainly know all about the toll overdoing it can take on
IN France, Spain or Portugal it is easy to buy a perfectly decent bottle of wine for a fiver or less. In Ireland you can
