Left everything until the last minute? Cookbook author and model Roz Purcell has a fast, simple a way to woo your Valentine

Meat pie sees off challenge from banana bread and earns its creator €100,000

Advertising agency records €1.45m in profit as revenue grows and costs fall

Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones is novel of the year. Winners include Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Paul Howard, Paul O’Connell and Tana French

There's more to the picnic than the main stage

Twins David and Stephen Flynn have built a mini-empire on their healthy eating philosophy. With the upcoming release of their second book, they talk life, food and healthy competition with Una Mullally

Largest Irish garden festival expected to attract 100,000 over bank holiday weekend

‘Within 48 hours I ate a sausage roll, carrot cake and a chicken burrito bowl’

Sample brewer’s paste, make your own wholefood snack bars, visit Val’s Kitchen

The midlands town that gave us Joe Dolan and Bressie has more than talented singers

We’re cray for Bey and sick of election mail

Athletes full of smiles at one of the toughest ever races in Dublin put rest of us to shame

Ice-cream and champagne order of the day as racing enthusiasts bask in glorious sunshine

With the race for fitness ever-dominant real athletes are being overlooked

Newbridge defended the ad, saying it never intended to objectify women

I surprised myself by standing the heat in the kitchen, but the flames finally got me

Sprinter Sacre makes Irish debut in €200,000 Champion Chase

It was a slow day at the tents. Not even the biting wind could drive clients to the warm embrace of Hunter wellies and Barbour coats