A warm boxty embrace on the border

Between a classically delicious dinner at The Olde Post Inn and a brilliant boxty event, this was a pretty special 36 hours in Cavan

The Olde Post Inn, Cloverhill, Co Cavan: a warm, welcoming place dishing up warm, welcoming food Pic: Barry Cronin

The Olde Post Inn

Cloverhill, Co Cavan

047-55555, theoldepostinn.com

Chef: Gearóid Lynch

Here’s a sentence you don’t read every day: I had one of the best meals I’d eaten in ages last weekend in a marquee, on a bridge, in driving rain and temperatures that could best be described as challenging.

The bridge in question was the one between Blacklion in Co Cavan and Belcoo in Co Fermanagh, and the meal in question ...