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The 58th Annual Clarenbridge Oyster Festival takes place on September 15-16 and to celebrate they are giving away two tickets to both their Oyster Fete on Saturday 15 and their Family Fun Day on Sunday 16 along with a fantastic two night’s accommodation, courtesy of The Maldron Hotel, Oranmore, Co Galway.

Researchers at NUI Galway’s Ryan Institute are part of a new of €2.4 million EU project that aims to develop and enhance the sustainability of the prawn fishery. The research will focus on developing hatchery and ranching technologies, and enhancing the survival of discards. The latter is a contentious issue in ongoing EU Common Fisheries Policy negotiations.

I visited the 2012 Young Scientist Exhibition last week and came across a couple of interesting projects which demonstrate that there are teenagers out there putting their brains to work in the food sector. It is only when you see that many enthusiastic kids under one roof you think, yes, perhaps we can create a bright future, but not if we lose them to foreign climes permanently.

There is just a month to get all your Christmas shopping done, and at Claddagh Jewellers’ huge pre-Christmas sale, you will find it hard to know where to start.

Clarenbridge GAA Club, in conjunction with rhe Clarenbridge Oyster Festival 2010, is hosting a fund-raising raffle. First prize is one year’s membership for two adults in the Kingfisher Leisure Club, valued €1,000; second prize is holiday vouchers, valued €600; and third prize is two All-Ireland football tickets. The draw will take place in the oyster festival marquee on Friday September 10. Tickets €5 each or book of five for €20. Tickets can be purchased from all club officers.

This is the title of the best book ever written about our famous Irish oysters. It was launched in 2004 and immediately won a very coveted prize at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. In 2005 it was named Food Book of the Year by Food and Wine magazine. So why do I bring this to your attention? The reason is simple, I met the author Máirín Uí Chomáin recently and after a brief conversation I realised that she had written an Irish cookery book which I had been unaware of — shame on me.

Families are invited to enjoy an afternoon of jazz, dance and entertainment at the Oyster Festival marquee on Sunday from 1pm to 5pm.

When it comes to jewellery this season it's all about multi-layering necklaces. Layering isn’t just for clothing — it’s for necklaces too. In this trend, more is more. For a statement-making look, the trick is to pile on as many pieces as possible at once, whether it is pearls, metallics, or oversized beads. You can mix and match the different styles or layer necklaces all in the same style.

There’ll be an R in the month until next April, which for aficionados of oysters can only mean one thing: these delicacies will be available for the next seven months. Jonathan Swift is often quoted as having said, “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster”, and many of us would rather chew the head off a dead rat than let these glutinous, muscly, sea water-scented little shellfish anywhere near our dinner plate, but some view them as a delicacy on a par with caviar and champagne. Slurped straight off the half shell, either just as they are or enlivened with a dash of Tabasco or lemon juice, or cooked in a fish stew or a steak and kidney pie, and washed down with a pint of creamy Guinness or a glass of white wine or champagne, the oyster occupies a unique place in European, American and Asian cuisine.

It is no secret that Abalone restaurant in Dominick Street is one of my favourite restaurants, so I was very happy to accept an invitation from the chef proprietor, Alan Williams, to taste his first ever delivery of fresh abalone. What makes this fresh abalone really special is that it is 100 per cent Irish produced. It comes from Cape Clear, and if you are an avid watcher of RTE you may have seen a documentary showing how the owner Martin O’Mealoid was bringing his live abalone to the kitchens of two of the most famous eateries in London, The Dorchester and that coolest of cool sushi restaurant, Nobu.