This weekend at O’Connell’s Restaurant (located in the Berkeley D4 Hotel), a gluten free festival takes place headed by specialist gluten free chef, Rosemary Kearney. Difficult to ascertain details of exactly what is taking place but knowing her reputation for bringing excitement back to the plates of the coeliac community, it should be a fantastic […]
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A Rude Awakening was dealt at the weekend to all those who feel a visit to their GP is the start and end point of their involvement with their own health this weekend. Rude Health at the RDS was attended by the thousands that know better, that have an abiding interest in taking control of […]
National Organic Week Ireland 2009 is upon us. It runs from 14 September to 20 September inclusive but The Hopsack is offering you lip-smackin’ tastings for an entire fortnight! Sweet, eh? Whole Earth soft drinks; Koyu Matcha tea; toasty Clearspring seed snacks; and organic, fair-trade, sun-drenched mango are just a few of the treats chosen […]
Avoiding The Snip is an art form. Flexible people dodge scissors better, just as hardworking natural products help blunt Snip’s edges by turning frugal living into recession chic. The beauteous thing about Nature’s bounty is its army of multitaskers. The cinnamon that adds zing to your apple pie can also lower your blood sugar. The […]
Well quite contrary to what we expected the lucky recipients of our first newsletter have shown less than clamouring excitement at our Great Big Goodie Bag Giveaway so we’re throwing this one open to the floor. There are just a few amazingly generous bags of free stuff sitting in the back of the Hopsack; looking […]
We in The Hopsack have been privy to her 'Barley Grass Salty Balls', and she frequently drops into the shop to share a bit of her wisdom and generally pow-wow on a subject close to our hearts – food *sigh*. In all honesty though what we haven't looked at until far too recently was the […]
Welcome, new readers, to The Hopsack website, and a warm welcome back to those of you who have visited us before 🙂 We hope you enjoy the site and find the information it contains useful and thought provoking. If you’re surfing the e-waves you will find us at www.hopsack.ie. My name is Rhoda and I […]
Guess what! We’ve managed to cadge four bottles of Viridian Joint Omega Oil to give away! The first four readers who tell us the names of two *spicy* ingredients in Viridian Joint Omega Oil will each win a bottle of this nourishing elixir. Just email us the correct answer and we’ll be in touch should […]
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Clearing a Path (click to download) Well if you haven't already heard of colonic irrigation you must be the last one to know – made famous by it's celebrity devotees of the last decade, colonics have been somewhat villified due to the somewhat taboo nature of the, ahem, stuff that they deal with. Download the […]