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The new Bridgestone Irish Food Guide, released every two and a half years, is just out and includes a glowing review of Knockranny House Hotel. Author John McKenna said that the book contains “all the good stuff and only the good stuff”, and also advised that Mayo is the most improved county in the country. When the last issue of the food guide came out Mayo only had nine pages – this year there are 15.

Susan Murphy, a Waterford Institute of Technology professional cookery student from Kilmanagh, Co Kilkenny, has won a gold award in culinary arts at a competition staged by the European Association of Hotel & Tourism Schools in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

A homeless man who was found intoxicated and carrying a knife on the busy promenade in Salthill received seven months detention when he appeared at Galway District Court.

The g hotel will be reopening on Saturday December 26 at 1pm. Christmas is a wonderful opportunity to catch up with family and friends, with food served all day in the Philip Treacy designed lounges, complimentary parking, and a delightful ambience awaits, as you sit back and enjoy the range of freshly cooked creations to suit all palates and pockets.

Escape to the west for a terrific start to the new decade where the team at The Twelve Hotel will pamper and spoil you, ensuring that you start 2010 with a huge smile on your face.

Last year was one to forget in terms of crime in the city. In the Spring, we had to listen to the harrowing details of how Manuela Riedo met her end. In the midst of the Volvo Ocean race, we had the killing of young Kieran Cunningham on a night out with his pals. As I write this, another young man fights for his life in a Dublin hospital after being assaulted in the city at the end of the year.

Looking back over a year that has received so much dark and depressing comment it seems to me that the food and restaurant business in and around Galway did a good job in 2009, and in fact expanded in many cases. Also the quality and value available to us the punters has been going in the right direction, lots of early bird menus, mid week offers, free bottle of wine with takeaways over €40, coffees down to a more acceptable €2 in many places, wine list prices being revised downwards, etc. As regards the quality I think that places like The Twelve in Barna, Sheridan’s on the Docks, Artisan in Quay Street, The g Hotel, and Abalone are all producing serious food and most of them have special deals if you give them a call. Places like Basilico in Oranmore, while only in business less than two years, continue to pack the customers in with great prices and great food. Most takeaways are reporting an increase in business.

Celebrity chef Rachel Allen has joined forces with O’Brien’s sandwich bars to front a national marketing campaign to promote the O’Brien’s brand.

Celebrity chef Rachel Allen has joined forces with O’Brien’s sandwich bars to front a national marketing campaign to promote the O’Brien’s brand.

A man has been remanded in custody to appear before Kilkenny District Court next month on charges of cruelty to animals.