October 2024
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The Full Irish is Still the Best
In my latest cookbook, Delicious Ireland: Forty Years of Fabulous Food, I wrote about experiencing my first Irish breakfast: “We all treasured Ireland for reasons of our own, but none of us thought much about the food then — except breakfast, perhaps, when we would sit down with total strangers and be fussed over about how we wanted our eggs cooked and whether we wanted a bit of porridge to start or did we need more toast […] Read More
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Irish Viral Sensation “Hallelujah” Priest Father Ray Kelly To Perform at Little Flower Charity Event
Are you one of the 91 million who got goosebumps watching the YouTube video of an Irish Catholic priest sing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in a perfect tenor voice to a young couple whose wedding he just performed? That was Father Ray Kelly, a former missionary turned pastor of a parish in County Meath, who at 61 became an overnight viral sensation. Later, he went on to wow the usually scowling Simon Cowell on Britain’s Got Talent […] Read More