From Bibliocook: All About Food:
A perfectly seared scallop and a mouthful of Asian ’slaw, some crispy chilli squid on a sesame fried ricecake, a cone of battered smoked haddock with chunky chips and homemade tartare sauce, barbequed prawns, a pile of pickled seaweed alongside tuna carpaccio and fish pâté: it was a full-on seafood [...]

From Bibliocook: All About Food:
The An invitation to participate again in the judging of the Blas na hÉireann National Irish Food Awards in Dingle on Friday gave me the opportunity to discover a range of new products – as well as stick around for the rest of the weekend’s Dingle Food Festival festivities! This year’s [...]

From Bibliocook: All About Food:
Blas na hÉireann National Irish Food Awards have announced the shortlist for 2009. The products in each of the 28 categories – ranging from soups and cheese to biscuits and sausages – were chosen from a blind tasting of almost 800 entries, which must have been a whole lot of fun [...]

From Bibliocook: All About Food:
Just got a message from one of the researchers on RTÉ’s The Restaurant. At the moment they are looking for diners for the next series of the television show. If you’re interested, read on!
Do you want to dine in RTÉ’s The Restaurant? Are you a foodie who loves to eat [...]

From Bibliocook: All About Food:
The Little Sister, who finishes college early on Fridays, was around yesterday so we took Little Missy for a walk that turned into an impromptu blackberry picking expedition.
Not being very organised, we had to use LM’s hat for a basket, gathering (and eating) the berries while we strolled down [...]

From Bibliocook: All About Food:
When I was small, we had rhubarb growing in the back garden. Whatever variety it was – we had sourced the crown from some friend or relative so there were no labels – it grew gigantic stems, as thick as a baby’s wrist, topped by enormous leaves that we thought [...]

From TechWire:
The Indo becomes the second Irish newspaper to create an iPhone App for itself. Smart move. Surely only a matter of time before the Times follows suit.
The Munster Express was the first Irish newspaper to do so.
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From TechWire: Uh oh.
Looks like Liberty Global, which owns UPC, which trades as Chorus NTL, is having a rethink about this whole standing-up-to-the-music-industry thing.
"We would absolutely like to see a system put in place that will prohibit piracy," said Shane O'Neill (pictured above left), vice president of Liberty Global, at a Hot Press music event [...]

From TechWire: [This appeared in yesterday's SBP. However, if you're a student, you may not read newspapers.]
You’ve made it! Your first year in college! You’re cool!You ready to learn IT’s premier rule?Though teachers won’t say, tis part of the bargain:To get on in tech, you’ve got to know jargon.
There’s synergy, cloud IT, networks and tweets,There’s [...]

From TechWire:
There are early reports that the Palm Pre may not be arriving in Ireland on schedule, which would have been in the next few weeks. These are unconfirmed (no response from O2, which has the Pre for the Irish market). We'll keep you informed on the latest with this.
Update (10.35am): O2 Ireland has [...]