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NZ Herald
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- NZ Herald
Paul Henry revealed as host for the Chase New Zealand
TVNZ has today announced the host for their highly anticipated New Zealand version of The Chase New Zealand. Broadcaster Paul Henry is set to take on the role for a four-episode special of the hugely popular British quiz show, commissioned by TVNZ. The New Zealand iteration of the
RTÉ News
4 days ago
- RTÉ News
From UL to UCD, these college restaurants are open to the public
Semesters come and go, students transform from freshers to graduates, but appetites always linger. Did you know a number of universities around Ireland offer lunch and dinner to the paying public beyond the student body? From fine dining in a palatial mansion in Limerick to Sichuan specialities in UCD, even Trinity College flings open its doors to public diners every weekday with a classic and value-focused lunch menu. When we were in university over a decade ago, the extent of gourmet cuisine was chicken tenders and chips in the bar or a breakfast roll from the shop deli, but times have certainly changed. If you fancy delving into the culinary arts, here are six for starters… East Room at Plassey House, University of Limerick A fine dining restaurant that belies its university setting, Plassey House is a resplendent Georgian villa — known locally as "The White House" — overlooking the River Shannon, which sits at the heart of the University of Limerick campus just a couple of kilometres from Limerick city centre. This mansion has been part of UL's footprint since 1970, but dates back 200 years prior to the late 1700s, while The East Room opened to the public in 2017. The original idea was to root a dazzling fine dining destination in the university's pristine surroundings to help elevate Limerick's gastronomy, with its whimsical and enchanting settings including ornate statues and a grand dining room full of art from the likes of Jack B. Yeats and Paul Henry. The kitchen is led by Head Chef-Proprietor Derek Fitzpatrick, and the menu reflects the season with lots of Irish produce sprinkled with international flavours and inspiration. The lunch set menu costs €45 per person, while the dinner menu is €75 per person. Book a table via Elsewhere on North campus, over on the Clare side, a family-friendly Sunday roast is served weekly and open to the public at The Pavilion. Restaurant 1592, Trinity College Dublin It is estimated that over two million tourists visit Trinity College annually, but how many visitors to the hallowed halls of Ireland's oldest university know you can pre-book a table at the elegant 1592 Restaurant for lunch any weekday? Titled for the university's founding year under Queen Elizabeth I, the restaurant — now in its 25th year in operation — is open Monday to Friday weekly with service running between 12pm and 3pm (last orders 2pm) for students and non-students alike with a three-course lunch menu followed by tea or coffee a steal at €30 per person (before VAT is added or any optional service). Given the setting, the menu leans unapologetically classic with starters like Honey Dew Melon with Parma Ham or soup of the day, while mains might take the form of baked Hake with pea purée and tarragon sauce or roast pork belly with apple sauce and a five-spice jus. Finish on classic desserts like a lemon tartlet or crème brûlée. Located in the heart of the Trinity campus in Dublin city centre, adjacent to the Dining Hall and off the Front Square, the restaurant has been recently renovated for a more contemporary feel and décor while retaining original historical features and the unique collection of art. Bookings are taken via enquiry form. Academy, Ulster University, Belfast Academy is Ulster University's state-of-the-art educational hub, which comprises a culinary school, beverage school and a public-facing restaurant on York Street in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter. The space is facilitated by the students to get on-the-job service experience from paying customers whilst also recently being awarded a Green Key by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) for its sustainability and environment-focused practices. Lunch service takes place between 12.30pm and 2.30pm Monday to Friday weekly, where a three-course lunch sitting averages around. £25 per person. Expect starters like Confit duck leg or salmon tartar with horseradish and apple; mains of sea bass, fishcake and pok choi in a Thai curry cream or chicken supreme with celeriac, pickled wild mushroom and tenderstem broccoli before desserts such as pear and almond frangipane tart, crème Anglaise or rhubarb Eton mess. Dinner service runs from 7pm to 8:30pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and on select evenings during the college semester the Culinary Arts Management students create unique tasting menus for special dinners. The space is closed every weekend. Bookings are taken via ResDiary on the restaurant website. Confucius Institute Restaurant, University College Dublin Where can you find some of Dublin's most authentic Chinese food? In Belfield of all places where within the Confucius Institute on the campus of Dublin's largest university, UCD, you will find a canteen-style restaurant that's open to the public, not just the student body, serving everything from regional delicacies like hot pot and spicy clay pot dishes to healthier options of steamed fish and even their take on the ubiquitous spice bag. The restaurateurs behind Hakkahan in Stoneybatter, Nan Chinese near Stephen's Green, China Tang in Monkstown and the pair of Little Dumpling spots on either side of the Liffey in the city centre are also the team behind this unlikely, but very welcome, outpost. The great value menu changes daily, but expect Sichuan specialities like fuqii feipian (spicy offal), mapo tofu (tofu in a fermented bean and beef sauce), smashed cucumber in chilli and Kung Pao chicken alongside other Cantonese specialities like steamed scallops with ginger and Siu Yuk (red-braised pork belly). The kitchen runs from 12pm to 8pm, seven days a week, more casual canteen-style in the daytime, but post 5pm you can order whole dishes. Elsewhere, find a street food container selection at the Gather and Gather-run UCD Walkway with the likes of Chimac, Bombay Pantry and Burritos and Blues. UCD Village is also home to a new market-style, global-focused food hall — open to the public seven days a week from early breakfast to late dinner — with a range of street food and casual dining options. Expect mammy-style roasts at Blasta, smashburgers and wings at Mikeys, toasties at MELT Toastie Bar and Hong Kong-style barbecue at Bullet, which is another outlet from the same Hakkahan-Nan-China Tang team. Find two public-facing restaurants in the Grangegorman campus of TU Dublin, the Ballymaguire Foods restaurant and the Musgrave Marketplace restaurant, both in the Central Quad Building, while over in the Tallaght Campus, visitors will find the Scholars restaurant within the Main Building on the ground floor. Students from the courses in Culinary Arts, Hospitality Management. These student-led training spaces are really classrooms in action under the guise of a restaurant, where the lecturers stress the primary objective is to facilitate student learning while offering the public the opportunity to pre-book a lunch or dinner service. Lunch tickets cost between €20 and €30 per person while dinner tickets run from €35 to €45 per person. Timings dovetail to term time so when semesters are not in session these are not run and bookings open annually to coincide with classes resuming from September onwards. Pop-Ups at DKIT In Louth at Dundalk Institute of Technology, the DkIT Culinary Arts, Event Management, and Hospitality Management students have run special weekend pop-ups in both March 2024 and 2025, most recently hosting seven-course tasting dinners and Bridgerton-inspired afternoon teas. One to watch for March 2026, keep an eye on their Instagram for more details.
Irish Examiner
24-05-2025
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- Irish Examiner
Art worth millions to change hands at Dublin sales
An array of exciting choices will come up at major sales of Irish art in Dublin by Whyte's, deVeres and James Adam on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Art worth a couple of million euro is set to change hands at sales headed by Paul Henry (Whyte's), Gerard Dillon (de Veres) and Roderic O'Conor (Adam's). All are on view this weekend. A spectacular 1933 oil, Achill Horses (€70,000-€100,000) by Mainie Jellett, will create interest among serious collectors. This modern abstract style was in marked contrast to the prevailing realist mode of her contemporaries like Paul Henry and Charles Lamb. Jellett was chosen to create murals of the life and people of Ireland for the Free State Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, of 1938 in Glasgow. Another version of Achill Horses is included in the Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone exhibition at the National Gallery until August 10. The most expensively estimated work at all three sales is West of Ireland Bog by Paul Henry (€120,000-180,000). It is one of three works by the artist at Whyte's, where Cottages, West of Ireland (€60,000-€80,000) and Keel Bay, Achill (€50,000-€70,000) also feature. In Hill Fair at Achill Island by Letitia Hamilton (€15,000-€20,000), the viewer joins the busy scene through an uneven path between two large limestone rocks. 'West of Ireland Bog' by Paul Henry at Whyte's. There is international art by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Ferdinand Roybet, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley and Maurice Poirson as well as a sketch of James Joyce by his close friend Frank Budgen. The auction offers major works by William Leech, Dan O'Neill, Colin Middleton and George Russell, Dublin scenes by Flora Mitchell, prints by Patrick Scott, William Scott and Louis le Brocquy, sculpture by Rowan Gillespie and John Behan and work by popular artists like Kenneth Webb, Graham Knuttel, Cecil Maguire and Arthur Maderson. 'Achill Horses' by Mainie Jellett at Whyte's. The piece Little Girl's Wonder by Gerard Dillon is the top lot at the art and sculpture sale by deVeres next Tuesday. In tune with the naive style and strong use of colour for which Dillon is known, it was shown in 1955 at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in Dublin, which was established in 1943 to promote modernism in Ireland. This work is estimated at €50,000-€80,000 The sale at deVeres offers art by Louis le Brocquy, Colin Middleton, Daniel O'Neill, Patrick Collins, John Shinnors, Peter Curling, Lillian Davidson, George Russell (AE), May Guinness and Mainie Jellett. The sculpture in the auction, on view in the garden of The Merrion Hotel, includes work by Rowan Gillespie, FE McWilliam, Patrick O'Reilly, Jason Ellis and Michael Warren. 'Black and White Scarecrows' by John Shinnors at Adams. A reclining nude and a night scene of a boat in a storm, both by Roderic O'Conor and estimated respectively at €40,000-€60,000 and €15,000-€25,000, lead the sale of Important Irish Art at James Adam on Wednesday evening. A dreamlike image by Hughie O'Donoghue, The Sea, The Sea from 2003, is estimated at €15,000-€20,000. Among 100 lots on offer is The Path of the Lamb (1966), an oil on canvas commissioned by the Dominican Order for St Saviour's Church on Dominick Street in Dublin (€10,000-€15,000). The work Figures Asleep by Mary Swanzy from the 1940s (€10,000-€15,000) shows a makeshift arrangement that possibly depicts neighbours sheltering during air raids. Two arresting and contrasting works by renowned artists are the dense and restrained Black and White Scarecrows by John Shinnors (€5,000-€8,000) and Silent Gardens, a colourful piece from 1985 by Tony O'Malley (€12,000-€15,000). A bronze by Rowan Gillespie, Convict Woman (€8,000-€12,000) is based on one of the life-size figures by the artist unveiled in Hobart, Tasmania in 2017, known as the footsteps-toward-freedom statues. It represents the 13,000 convict women and 2,000 of their children who were transported to Van Diemen's Land. A selection of sculptures by John Behan and Oisin Kelly is also on offer. Viewing is underway and all catalogues are online.
Irish Independent
23-05-2025
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- Irish Independent
In the salerooms: A record-breaking Kashmir sapphire, Jack B Yeats and more
A sapphire and diamond ring formerly estimated between €8,000 and €12,000 fetched a record-breaking €550,000 at Adam's on May 13. The estimate increased to €150,000 to €250,000 when the gemstone was found to be from Kashmir, where it was mined in the 19th century. See Whyte's Whyte's auction of Irish & International Art takes place Monday, May 26. The highest estimate in the sale is for Paul Henry's West of Ireland Bog (Lot 18: est €120,000 to €180,000). In contrast, Achill Horses, 1933, by Mainie Jellett (Lot 37: est €70,000 to €100,000), depicts the west of Ireland in an abstract style radically different to those of her peers, Paul Henry and Charles Lamb. See Dolan's The Summer Auction of Irish Art & Whiskeys closes at Dolan's on Monday, May 26. The highlight of the sale is an oil painting by Jack B Yeats, Man Running (1947) (est €100,000 to €150,000). 'It was painted in a period when Yeats was confronting his own mortality and his paintings often centred on elderly male figures wandering across an uncultivated but impressive terrain,' writes art critic Roisin Kennedy. See Hegarty Antiques The auction of The Kingsland Collection Part II takes place live online at Hegarty Antiques on Wednesday, May 28. Highlights include some rare provincial Irish silver: a set of 10 silver dessert spoons by Patrick Connell of Limerick, circa 1785 (Lot 6: est €4,000 to €5,000); and a silver sugar castor by Daniel McCarthy of Cork circa 1770 (est €2,200 to €3,200). See
