Is Richard Corrigan a complete muppet?

[JessicaDunne]

Richard Corrigan tries to stir it up calling for Bord Bia to be dissolved (yes, it was a sad pun, ) but he is seemingly very short on facts....

fellow Chef Niall H shreds Corrigan
Richard Corrigan Calls for Bord Bia To be Abolished

and then there is this worrisome post with some RTE folks playing silly buggers
Peter Donegan landscaping Weblog richard corrigan’s [for the] silly farm… ?

How this lad still gets meeja time is beyond me.....ah, no wait, he had free food at this press conference....actual 'gift grub' one could say!!

[asset test]

All publicity is good publicity. How's his restaurant on the Green doing these days?

[orbit]

Listened to him on Radio 1 yesterday. And yes, he is a complete muppet.

[Anglo Upah]

Why is he a muppet, because he is outspoken about food quality. There should be more like him. And if you watched his show, you would have seen he had a box of bord bia approved eggs but when he opened the box the eggs were all stamped UK. That is what he is giving out about. He might be over the top but he does care about local producers and growers.

[orbit]

Why is he a muppet, because he is outspoken about food quality. There should be more like him. And if you watched his show, you would have seen he had a box of bord bia approved eggs but when he opened the box the eggs were all stamped UK. That is what he is giving out about. He might be over the top but he does care about local producers and growers.

The eggs were from Northern Ireland apparently. The Bord Bia scheme covers the whole island.

[jdckelly]

heard him on the last word yesterday sounded like he was on the verge of a breakdown

[Digout]

All publicity is good publicity. How's his restaurant on the Green doing these days?

Its not busy during the week, a 3 week wait for a table at weekend.

[wombat]

Its not busy during the week, a 3 week wait for a table at weekend.

I was wondering where his restaurant was, never heard of him until I saw him on an RTE cookery show.

[Digout]

I was wondering where his restaurant was, never heard of him until I saw him on an RTE cookery show.

Its the old browns place on Stephens Green, its a nice spot.

[kvof]

I don't know if Richard Corrigan even lives in Ireland at present. He mostly made his name with restaurants in London. I first saw him a couple of years ago on BBC Food Programme.

His outbursts usually gets everyone's back up because a communicator he isn't. He may have a point about Bord Bia but is not making himself understood. Food isn't always about price - we Irish (& British) seemed to have missed that point. We should be eating the best food we can afford, the French/Itialians have a completely different approach.