First 2016 Issue

If you relied entirely on the mainstream media you might think that everybody outside Dublin survives on nothing but bacon and cabbage. For our first 2016 Megabites we plucked some of the really funky and creative people in Cork, Limerick, Louth and Athlone, the people who provide the proof that eating in rural Ireland is every bit as dynamic as what's happening in the big smoke. All this and the Longford Leader himself, Gary O'Hanlon, explains why you've got to put that smile on every time you step out of the kitchen.