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Lisloughrey Lodge in Cong is one of 11 new entrants in the Bridgestone 100 Best Places to Stay in Ireland 2009. The guide, together with its sister publication, the Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants in Ireland 2009, has just been published by John and Sally McKenna.

A potter based in Castlecomer Estate Yard was once again chosen to design the awards for The Bridgestone Electric Picnic Awards 2009.

Three of Ireland’s top 100 places to stay are in Westmeath, according to the newly launched 2009 Bridgestone Guide.

Kin Khao Thai, Athlone’s celebrated Thai restaurant has been shortlisted for the 2009 Food and Wine Magazine Restaurant of the Year Awards. Now in its ninth year, the event to be held at the Mansion House in Dublin on August 23, showcases the best in the Irish food and hospitality world.

A potter based in Castlecomer Estate Yard was once again chosen to design the awards for The Bridgestone Electric Picnic Awards 2009.

After an unsettled few months, Athlone’s Passionfruit Theatre is getting ready to reopen its doors to the public next week.

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.

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.

Knockranny House Hotel will host a very special event for food and wine lovers with an evening of tutored tastings by a selection of international wine producers on Saturday January 30. The event will include walk-around tastings, masterclasses, blind tastings, and a winemakers’ dinner with a specially designed menu from Connaught’s best chef Seamus Commons as awarded by Food & Wine magazine.

Emer Murray, crowned by food writer John McKenna as ‘the best baker in Ireland,’ was an unhappy law student at NUIG. She came from a business and insurance agents background, and the law just didn’t have the excitement she thought it would have. One day her mother Ena told her that John and Anne Sherry were looking for outside caterers. They had recently taken over Lydon House, and wanted croissants and Danish pastries for their breakfast menu. Emer, who had a passion for cooking, went into O’Gorman’s bookshop, bought a book on making breads and pastries, and, that evening called round to the Sherry household with samples. She got the job.