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Kilkenny is once again preparing to celebrate its rich food tradition and heritage with the launch of the fifth annual Savour Kilkenny Food Festival which takes place from October 28 to 31 this year.

Bond Cafe in Ballina is the perfect setting for a bite to eat. The cafe opened in April of this year when Mari Cambridge, a Mayo native, returned to Ireland from the UK. Ms Cambridge has vast experience in the food businesses — nine years running a French deli in Kent, which specialised in French, English, and Irish cheeses, and nine years strictly catering directly for both corporate and private clients.

With Kilkenny’s Food Strategy now on hold since January, Kilkenny Leader Partnership, has renewed calls to Government to solve the current EU food funding crisis. Confusion over the allocation of EU funds for rural Irish food businesses arose earlier this year resulting in the indefinite suspension of Leader funding for the Irish food sector.

Small food businesses in Ireland are continuing to demonstrate strong growth both on the domestic and export markets, according to new figures released by Bord Bia this week. Bord Bia works with over 400 small food businesses with an annual turnover of some €400 million, representing an increase in value of seven per cent per year since 2007.

Small or start-up food and drink businesses in Kilkenny could be in with a chance to win a prize worth €25,000 in a new food innovation award.

Local food businesses have a great opportunity to get a slice of the action in the forthcoming Savour Kilkenny Food Festival which takes place over the October bank holiday weekend.

The wonderful space of Kilkenny’s Parade will be used to build a tented village as part of this year’s Savour Kilkenny food festival which takes place on the October bank holiday weekend.

Bank of Ireland Business Banking issued its latest Business Start-up Barometer that tracks the number of new businesses starting up in Ireland. The report showed that Kilkenny ranked number 17 with 181 new business start-ups during the year.

Springfield Stores, Mullingar was one of five food businesses nationwide to be served with closure orders during January.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland stated on Thursday that four closure orders and one prohibition order were served on food businesses during the month of February for breaches of food safety legislation pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998, with one of these closures being made in Belmullet.