The discovery of traces of pork in halal meat from a County Tyrone processing plan have been described as 'very disturbing' by a leader of Ireland's Muslim community.

Ireland’s abandoned equine issue has reached crisis level.  With thousands of unwanted and unregulated horses roaming the Isle and being easily targeted by unscrupulous meat processing practitioners, it begs the question: have abandoned Irish horses entered the food chain?  And, more importantly, have those horses contained bute (phenylbutazone)?  Bute causes cancer in humans.

With only 46 days left until St. Patrick’s Day, the Irish themed food products have already begun to emerge.

14-year-old child prodigy Flynn McGarry is cooking a sold out 12 course meal for 40 people at $160 per person at the Beverly Hills BierBisel this Wednesday. He has previously cooked for more than 120 people and run his own pop-up restaurant.

Coffee. Whiskey. Cream. Sugar. The ingredients are simple enough for the drink known the world over as Irish coffee.

A good Irish coffee should look like a pint of Guinness? No seriously, there should be a cold, thick, firm, creamy head on top of the dark, clear, scalding hot, coffee and whiskey mixture. It definitely should not have mixed or curdled, if it has, send it back and insist on a proper one. Half the pleasure is sipping the hot coffee through a layer of cold cream.

As the Irish actor Alex Levin said, “Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. ”

As the saying goes, “I could eat a horse,” and that’s likely what many Irish did over the past several months. The Irish Food watchdog, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, said it discovered horse DNA in burger products sold by Tesco, LIDL, ALDI, SPAR, and the country’s largest domestic supermarket chain, Dunnes Stores, causing the authority to demand the removal of ten million burgers from supermarket shelves. 

Blogger Peabody, who runs the website Culinary Concoctions by Peabody, has been moving towards family friendly food on her blog. “I love food. I have always loved food. Most importantly, I have always loved sweets. Almost every great memory in my life can be traced back to food in some form or manner,” she explains.

It’s no secret that the Irish are fond of a nice bit of homemade, comfort grub and over the years, especially around St. Patrick’s Day, we’ve noticed that our recipes are hugely popular.

Gather your family, stick on a pot of Guinness stew and enjoy St. Patrick's Day together. What better way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than with this hearty warming stew.

Lets call it the "new Irish" - a twist on the traditional much loved Irish recipe for St. Patrick's Day.