Renowned food expert John McKenna, one of the headline speakers at Recipes for Success: The Business of Food, a one-day business talk that opens the Westport Food Festival. Recipes for Success is being run in partnership with Mayo County Enterprise Board and forms part of Mayo Ideas Week.

The 'stars' of Food, Festival Food!, the music video created to launch the Westport Food Festival which will be shared virally. It includes a cast of chefs, beekeepers, a baker, barman, cheese maker who all sing and perform their own adaptation of Food Glorious Food. The initiative is the first of its kind to promote a festival.

Pictured at the launch of the second Westport Food Festival were from left:

Sinead Lambert Barosso, Proprietor, Sol Rio Restaurant & Cafe; Declan Heneghan, General Manager, Hotel Westport; Orla O'Malley, Festival Director; Barney Clarke, General Manager, The Wyatt Hotel; Redmond Cabot, Food Producer; Eoin McDonnell, Head Chef, Wyatt Hotel; Stephanie Colombani, CEO, Westport Chamber; Thomas Lizee; Westport Woods Hotel.