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A dynamic new food strategy aimed at developing County Kilkenny into a major Irish food destination with the creation of jobs was launched on Friday to coincide with the start of the Savour Kilkenny Food Festival.

Waterford city plays host to 10 mouth-watering days of food-filled fun when the Waterford Harvest Festival rolls into town from September 10 to 19.

The importance of agriculture beyond the farm gate is often not fully appreciated, Mairead McGuinness, Fine Gael MEP, said in Swinford at the weekend.

I recently visited the kitchen of a wonderful service called Community Catering from COPE Galway. This is the new name of what used to be the service known as ‘Meals on Wheels’. COPE Galway Community Catering provides daily nutritional support for Galway city's older people. While the service is primarily for older people it is not exclusively so. They also provide meals to anyone who, through disability or injury, is unable to prepare a hot meal for themselves.

Last week, the Midlands Gateway Chamber hosted over 100 business leaders from the Midlands Region, from key business and service sectors, and representatives of the three town chambers Athlone, Tullamore, and Mullingar at a workshop to seek their assistance in mapping out the best route forward for the economic development of the Midlands Gateway Region.

At a time when the role of food production had re-emerged as vital to national and EU objectives it was incongruous to see the Irish Exporters Association attempting to diminish the economic value of Irish agriculture in the context of WTO negotiations.

A new innovative Carlow Farm Food Programme has just been announced.

Fasting with no meat-eating for a day each week could make a comeback, because it has been suggested that cutting down on meat consumption would have a positive effect on reducing greenhouse emmissions.

Liam Aylward MEP is among a group of Irish members of the European Parliament who are hoping to stop a pesticide package which is at the present time being discussed by the Environmental committee in Brussels.

Two Polish men, one being the business operator of a bakery in Castlebar, along with his employee, were convicted and fined at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday after the Health Service Executive summonsed them for not keeping the premises in good repair and condition, giving a statement to an environmental food officer which was false and misleading, and for failing to wear appropriate clothing while in the vicinity of food products.