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Irish Times
4 hours ago
- Business
- Irish Times
The Counter Deli review: Reliable sausage rolls, sandwiches and gourmet specialty foods
The Counter Deli Address : Canal Road, Letterkenny, Co Donegal, F92 PN40 Telephone : 074 9120075 Cuisine : Modern International Website : Cost : €€ What's on offer? The Counter Deli is split in two – a gourmet deli and a cafe. Up front, a hand-painted, tongue‑in‑cheek chalkboard sets the tone. Sheridan's cheeses and charcuterie sit in a chilled glass counter, with big slabs of cheese, whole salamis and cured meats ready to slice to order – not just pre‑packed plastic. Shelves are stocked with carefully chosen pantry goods: fresh artisanal bread, pasta, sauces, preserves, oils, tins of fish, Irish staples, plus a few speciality imports and wine. It's very much that wine‑bar‑grocer vibe. On the other side, the cafe has a white‑tiled counter turning out toasties, sandwiches, sausage rolls and coffee for eat‑in or takeaway. A glass display shows off fifteens, rocky road, malt squares, cookies and cake slices, with shelves of house coffee and a few extras. The coffee machine hums behind the counter, someone always pulling shots or packing orders – busiest at lunchtime with local workers. The service at The Counter Deli was very pleasant Seating is a simple mix of wooden tables, benches and stools for quick bites, with a few spots outside if the weather behaves. It is a relaxed place – you can get your sandwich to go, or impulse-buy fancy pasta and a jar of artisanal relish while you wait. It's the sort of place that's there for a good ham and cheese toastie at lunch – but also cheese and wine to take home for later. READ MORE What did we order? Sausage roll, ham and cheese sandwich, goat's cheese sandwich, and lemon cake slice. How was the service? Very pleasant. You order at the counter and will be called when your food is ready. Was the food nice? We ordered two toasted sandwiches, a sausage roll and a slice of lemon cake The sausage roll was good: golden, flaky pastry with loosely packed butcher's sausage meat. The pastry had a crisp bite, not greasy; the filling tasted like real meat – not breadcrumbs and salt. Looked home-made in the best way – rustic, uneven edges, fresh. The ham and cheese sandwich was a safe choice – Sheridan's cheddar, sliced ham, and good crisp sourdough toasted just right. I opted not to have the chilli jam, which kept it savoury but maybe a bit flat. The goat's cheese sandwich was the better pick – the same crisp sourdough but with more going on: creamy tangy cheese, beetroot, and fresh leaves for bite. The lemon cake was a let-down – dry, edging on stale, barely lemony, with a hard glaze on top. I didn't finish it. What about the packaging? All packaging is fully compostable. What did it cost? €26.25 for lunch for three people: sausage roll, €4.85; ham and cheese sandwich, €8.95; goat's cheese sandwich, €8.95; and lemon cake slice, €3.50. Where does it deliver? Eat-in or takeaway only. Open Mon-Fri, 8.30am-5pm, and Sat, 9.30am-5pm. Would I order it again? Perhaps, it's handy for a quick bite and the prices are reasonable.
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Resident Alien Cancelled, Will End With Season 4
Harry Vanderspeigle's time in Patience, Colo. has come to an end. Resident Alien has been cancelled by Syfy/USA Network, and will end with Season 4 (airing Friday nights at 10/9c). More from TVLine New NCIS: Tony & Ziva Trailer Teases Rekindled Romance... and a Wedding?! - Plus, 30+ New Photos Percy Jackson and the Olympians Reveals Season 2 Release Date and Trailer, Casting for Nico/Bianca The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Final Season - Plus, Mighty Nein Spinoff Gets Prime Video Release Date The news was announced Thursday evening at San Diego Comic-Con by series creator Chris Sheridan, ahead of this season's finale airing Friday, Aug. 8. 'I knew going into it that this was likely going to be our final season,' Sheridan tells TV Insider. 'Creatively, that was exciting because I knew we could spend the time wrapping up some storylines and driving toward an ending. 'I'm so proud of how good Season 4 is and especially proud that we were able to finish as strongly as we did, with a finale that is probably my favorite episode of the series,' the EP added. Based on the Dark Horse comics series of the same name, Resident Alien follows a crash-landed alien (Alan Tudyk) whose original mission was to kill every living being on the planet. But after spending time on Earth and making friends in the town of Patience, Colo., he changed course and set about on a new plan: To save humanity from other races of aliens who want to claim the world as their own. Season 4 has seen Harry going head-to-head with a Mantid that stole his identity. Making matters even worse, Harry realized his alien essence was stolen by the Greys as a result of his time spent captured on their spaceship. In addition to Tudyk, Resident Alien stars Sara Tomko, Alice Wetterlund, Corey Reynolds, Levi Fiehler, Elizabeth Bowen, Meredith Garrettson and Judah Prehn. The series also boasts an impressive list of guest stars including Edi Patterson (The Righteous Gemstones), Terry O'Quinn (Lost), Enver Gjokaj (Invasion), Gary Farmer and Sarah Podemski (Reservation Dogs), Jewel Staite (Firefly) and Linda Hamilton (The Terminator franchise). Resident Alien was adapted for television by Sheridan, who has also served as showrunner since its launch. Are you disappointed to be checking out of Patience, for good, on Aug. 8? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. TV Shows Ending in 2025: S.W.A.T., Two FBIs and 20+ Others View List Best of TVLine 'Missing' Shows, Found! Get the Latest on Ahsoka, Monarch, P-Valley, Sugar, Anansi Boys and 25+ Others Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More
The Age
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
The real housewives of Australia: How ‘Red' Bond led the way
On July 2, the news rippled eastwards across the Nullarbor. An extraordinary chapter in social history had ended. Eileen 'Red' Bond, the first wife of Alan Bond, had died in Perth from a stroke at the age of 87. Long before today's mawkish Real Housewives shows, Australia claimed a unique species of social fauna: the Socialitis Animalis Australis, a generation of larger-than-life, socially connected, cashed-up and indomitable women. Primrose 'Pitty Pat' Dunlop, Lady Mary Fairfax, Pixie Skase, Lillian Frank, Diana 'Bubbles' Fisher, Rose Hancock, Lady Sonia McMahon and Susan Renouf became celebrities as they epitomised an era of unmatched excess. Some of them married wealth and power; others worked, accruing their own. They were the apex predators of the society pages at a time when Australia produced audacious billionaires, such as Alan Bond. He and Eileen built their own university, hotels and even launched a fleet of airships. Despite a deluge of noise complaints, 'Red' was all smiles in 1987 as she launched her blimps over Sydney; powered by two roaring Porsche engines, they were bedecked in advertising for her Swan Premium beer and ciggies. Privately, she endured the loss of her daughter, Susanne, of coeliac disease in 2000, but carried on despite the ignominy of her husband's billion-dollar bankruptcy, fraud conviction, infidelity (she famously cut up his expensive suits in revenge) and their ultimate divorce. A devout Catholic and devoted matriarch and philanthropist, she hosted lavish dinner parties as enthusiastically as she once did her infamous sausage sizzles right up to her death. '[These women] handled things with grace,' says Ann Peacock, daughter of the late Andrew Peacock and his first wife, socialite Susan; a political power couple, the Peacocks were once known as Australia's Kennedys. 'Some scandals were ridiculously overblown … In 1970, Dad offered his resignation [as army minister] after Mum's Sheridan sheets ad furore!' (She had appeared in print ads for the brand.) A photo of Flemington's 'Holy Trinity', taken at the Melbourne Cup in 2003, perhaps sums them up best. Red looks like a dazzling toadstool in an enormous hat and sunglasses. At left is Lady Sonia McMahon, who died in 2010. In 1971, she caused a sensation at the White House, which she was visiting with her husband, the then-PM, Billy McMahon, by wearing a cream dress by Victoria Cascajo slit to her thighs. Peacock's mother, Susan Renouf, is on the right. She died in 2016 after living a life of headlines, including the tumultuous end, in 1988, of her marriage to billionaire Sir Frank Renouf. She refused – in front of a salivating media pack – to leave their ironically named Point Piper mansion, Paradis Sur Mer.
Sydney Morning Herald
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The real housewives of Australia: How ‘Red' Bond led the way
On July 2, the news rippled eastwards across the Nullarbor. An extraordinary chapter in social history had ended. Eileen 'Red' Bond, the first wife of Alan Bond, had died in Perth from a stroke at the age of 87. Long before today's mawkish Real Housewives shows, Australia claimed a unique species of social fauna: the Socialitis Animalis Australis, a generation of larger-than-life, socially connected, cashed-up and indomitable women. Primrose 'Pitty Pat' Dunlop, Lady Mary Fairfax, Pixie Skase, Lillian Frank, Diana 'Bubbles' Fisher, Rose Hancock, Lady Sonia McMahon and Susan Renouf became celebrities as they epitomised an era of unmatched excess. Some of them married wealth and power; others worked, accruing their own. They were the apex predators of the society pages at a time when Australia produced audacious billionaires, such as Alan Bond. He and Eileen built their own university, hotels and even launched a fleet of airships. Despite a deluge of noise complaints, 'Red' was all smiles in 1987 as she launched her blimps over Sydney; powered by two roaring Porsche engines, they were bedecked in advertising for her Swan Premium beer and ciggies. Privately, she endured the loss of her daughter, Susanne, of coeliac disease in 2000, but carried on despite the ignominy of her husband's billion-dollar bankruptcy, fraud conviction, infidelity (she famously cut up his expensive suits in revenge) and their ultimate divorce. A devout Catholic and devoted matriarch and philanthropist, she hosted lavish dinner parties as enthusiastically as she once did her infamous sausage sizzles right up to her death. '[These women] handled things with grace,' says Ann Peacock, daughter of the late Andrew Peacock and his first wife, socialite Susan; a political power couple, the Peacocks were once known as Australia's Kennedys. 'Some scandals were ridiculously overblown … In 1970, Dad offered his resignation [as army minister] after Mum's Sheridan sheets ad furore!' (She had appeared in print ads for the brand.) A photo of Flemington's 'Holy Trinity', taken at the Melbourne Cup in 2003, perhaps sums them up best. Red looks like a dazzling toadstool in an enormous hat and sunglasses. At left is Lady Sonia McMahon, who died in 2010. In 1971, she caused a sensation at the White House, which she was visiting with her husband, the then-PM, Billy McMahon, by wearing a cream dress by Victoria Cascajo slit to her thighs. Peacock's mother, Susan Renouf, is on the right. She died in 2016 after living a life of headlines, including the tumultuous end, in 1988, of her marriage to billionaire Sir Frank Renouf. She refused – in front of a salivating media pack – to leave their ironically named Point Piper mansion, Paradis Sur Mer.
Otago Daily Times
15 hours ago
- General
- Otago Daily Times
Protection wanted for white-tailed deer
A hunting lobby group wants white-tailed deer classed as a herd of special interest as pressure goes on their existence in the South. The status of both white-tailed deer and wapiti were hot topics at the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association's annual meeting in Invercargill last weekend. Association president Callum Sheridan said there was a lot of interest in the herds of special interest (Hosi) because 1080 poisoning operations on Stewart Island/Rakiura were threatening the geographically isolated white-tailed herds. The Department of Conservation website says the department administers 44 designated hunting blocks where the white-tailed deer live on Stewart Island. Herds were also established at the head of Lake Wakatipu: the two South Island locations are home to the only herds in the southern hemisphere. Mr Sheridan said aerial 1080 poisoning was a big problem. "Obviously Rakiura is going to be hammered, so that's really going to impact the white herd. They're a lot more susceptible to poison than other species." While it was illegal to kill deer with 1080 poison, they did die as a result of by-kill, he said. He would like protections and herd management established for white-tail deer similar to those the wapiti species had. But a dedicated white-tail foundation needed to be established as well as it being officially recognised as a Hosi. "There is quite a lot of economic value to our deer herds and white-tails [are] one of them." International hunters came specifically to hunt the species, also known as the "grey ghost". "New Zealand's like the last frontier place that you can come and hunt without too much restriction. "There's a lot of spending that goes on, especially from overseas ... all sorts of numbers bandied about over the years, right up to about $180 million. "Every time somebody goes hunting, they're spending some form of money ... whether it's buying ammunition, gear or food, or just spending money at the petrol station to get there." Any sort of game animal was also a resource for people to be able to feed themselves, he said. Conference guest speaker Hunting and Fishing Minister James Meager said he believed hunters were among the nation's greatest conservation tools as they were in the bush daily maintaining tracks, huts and animal populations. Hunters had support from the government for their work and he was supporting new legislation to recognise Hosi, he said. Submissions on making wapiti a herd of special interest closed yesterday.
