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  • IFWG welcomes new members for 2024

    It is with great pleasure that we announce the addition of seven new members to the Irish Food Writers’ Guild for 2024. Membership is by invitation only to established food writers with an acknowledged and substantial corpus of work. The Guild currently has 76 members. The new Guild members are: Jess Murphy, chef and writer;…

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  • 2024 Food Awards

    Sustainable Excellence celebrated at Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards The Irish Food Writers’ Guild celebrated their 2024 food awards with a ceremony and lunch held at Suesey Street on Tuesday, 27th February. It was attended by IFWG members, press and friends of the Guild. Pictured: (front centre) Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Peter and Mary Ward…

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  • IFWG SUMMER OUTING 2023: TASTE WEXFORD

    The sun shone when IFWG members gathered for our recent summer outing to Wexford. We chose Wexford as a destination because the county has been working on developing a food tourism offering and, in terms of location, it was also to facilitate members who wished to join us for the day. I worked with local…

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  • IFWG welcomes new members for 2023

    It is with great pleasure that we announce the addition of two new members to the Irish Food Writers’ Guild for 2023. Membership is by invitation only to established food writers with an acknowledged and substantial corpus of work. The Guild currently has 76 members. The new Guild members announced today, Wednesday 3 May, are…

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  • 2023 Food Awards

    Cheese, eel and ale among the winners in the 2023 Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards. The Irish Food Writers’ Guild celebrated 30 years of food awards with a ceremony and lunch held at Suesey Street, on Tuesday, 7th March. It was the first in-person awards presentation since 2020 and was attended by IFWG members,…

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  • Irish Food Writers’ Guild announces new members for 2022

    It is with pleasure that we announce the addition of three new members to the Irish Food Writers’ Guild for 2022. Membership is by invitation only to established food writers with an acknowledged and substantial corpus of work. The Guild currently has 74 members.       The new Guild members announced today, Wednesday 18 May, are:…

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  • 2022 Food Awards

    The Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards for 2022 were announced today, with a full press release and list of winners available here. As has been the case in recent pandemic years, it was decided not to hold the traditional IFWG Food Awards ceremony and lunch featuring all of the winning products and producers. However,…

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  • Petition to Make School Cookery Classes Part of the Curriculum

    Promoting good food education is one of the principle directives of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild and the Uplift petition, recently launched by member Darina Allen of the Ballymaloe Cookery School, gets right to the heart of that principle. “To affect change, we need to gather thousands of signatures to persuade the Government and Department…

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  • IFWG Food Award Winner Peter Hannan awarded MBE

    Peter Hannan, managing director of multi-award winning Hannan Meats, has been awarded an MBE for his outstanding contribution to economic development in Northern Ireland. No stranger to the denizens of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, Peter was presented with the Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 in recognition of his continued work as one of…

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  • Irish Food Writers’ Guild announces new members for 2021

    It is with great pleasure that we announce the addition of four new members to the Irish Food Writers’ Guild in 2021. Membership is by invitation only to established food writers with an acknowledged and substantial corpus of work. The Guild currently has 70 members.      The new Guild members announced today, Thursday 3 June,…

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