nothing is more romantic than biking along the waterfront greenway and the garden bay while the cool fresh air rushes against my face the green is beautifully manicured on the trail is twenty two miles be here with niall gibbons and he is the c e o imagine that of irish tourism and it is just ireland is an amazing place i mean it's a place of greenery great food we were here for food event and the food was we had three ships that came in from ireland and they prepared i think one of the best dishes i've ever had and ireland is amazing so talk about this whole thing of food you're always talking about food and guinness and you know  downtown manhattan celebrating all things food and irish we had three of our top chefs overflowed mechanic amazing we an amazing lady had just so much work for art and on the international stage and the food perspective we had during our who was a food legend first started coming out of the and that's a loan that's really resonated with me because it speaks to everything that we're trying to achieve in irish tourism at the moment we've seen record numbers coming people love to come for the scenery the food the culture the want of the people but the food story is interesting because people come maybe with lower expectations they remember stories of bacon and cabbage but they don't understand the marvelous seafood is there the bargain is of the ingredients the artisan scene the chefs the cookery schools the gastro pubs the walking food trails songs over the last number of years and that's why here today we had a great story to tell but what i really enjoy most of all is when the chefs get up at the end i i just see the little conversation which is very irish they always come up and they told the story about where they're from how they got here all come back and do more of that next time but i think you're right there is a lot of history in art and but i think the history of food and tourism is something that's really moving at a much faster pace now i think people have more confidence that's an economic story as well you know are it's been very successful in the last generation and people are experimenting more in terms of using food in the ingredients and more confident in telling their stories so to have someone like green alan here today was terrific because we were able to talk about what it was like the one nine hundred eighty s when something like basler wasn't really around about and there was there is there were certain herbs you would use but not that one but now the variety of spices herb's and you know you know mixing food and drink experience together creating new recipes that speak to you know the food over comes from the history of food ingredients speaks about the confidence but also about the authenticity of who we are and where we're from but i think also it's farm to table so it's very fresh which i think is fantastic you have pastors that go on forever i think we use the drone to go over those greenery that was all these different colors of green it was just amazing i mean to me ireland is green everything about it is just so fantastic and we sometimes take that for granted it's only actually when you fly home and you start to realize th green cleaner and i'm going to comes to agriculture you know it's really in a world where you know globalization is the middle name and you know we have this unique authentic beautiful clean environment which means that with the traceability structures that are in place as well for something like you know meat for example you know the farm to fork experience is very strong it doesn't travel too far and grass fed beef which is quite unique so to speak in the rockies and you know the buffer that we have you know a lot of the ingredients that go into the food that we produce have in trouble too far a lot of people are capitalizing on that now as well and some of our beautiful places like brook large are going to be closer to harvest festival recently where they celebrate all the people about twenty of the suppliers who supply all the ingredients for the various meals that they make and  celebration for all those farmers and harvest festival dinner for them i thought it was lovely for the spoke to you know who we are celebrating the people that you know supply ingredients that make the food that gives us what we eat on the table it's you know it's really amazing as you said that people thought of i was food is just being potatoes before and now it's much bigger that but i thought also found an interesting thing when i was in dublin the immigration museum which i thought was fantastic because it told the story of the irish people and and also how it mixed with so many other countries and it's just an amazing thing i mean was that to me that was an education it was a wonderful experience it is the epic are and it is what that experience is called it's the irish diaspora museum and it's a wonderful story just put together by michael never lies told never was the president and c e o of coca cola a number of years ago he's from downpatrick originally in northern ireland lived over in africa and you know we came in head of coca cola and you know saw this opportunity in art and to tell the story of the irish people like himself that went abroad and there are seventy million people in the irish family abroad there's about thirty four million in this country there's about five million between five million in canada millions in australia new zealand countries all over the world st patrick's day  we're very proud of that that is so wonderful i love it i mean you know this is my second time back and i was in cannes sale and cork and of course i was in dublin but and also of a friend in dublin who owns the  pamela blake i think that's near the shop and he came up and had breakfast with me and i thought this is really terrific even though i have much time but it's really you know it talk about friendship it's over the ocean over the sea over the pond whatever they call it and you have friends everywhere around the world i think it's fantastic and friendly unbelievable the irish people are so friendly and it's just really great it's great experience going there seeing all the history going to the manor houses which are absolutely exquisite the rivers but you also have seafood small of the restaurants but really the fresh takings of the day and again perhaps at home we take that for granted probably for the overseas visitor it's an experience that you won't get in the other countries it's really terrific but i'm glad you mention the compact size of dublin and i'm from dublin myself originally and you know is unique sort of place because it is a place where you can have been to anybody at any time you know people just get treated as normal there is so for example for me living there christmas eve as we come up to the new year's festival it's not unusual to see bono went busking on the street for the homeless so to speak with some of the merrion square yeah someone said something very interesting many years ago when he came to america and they asked if he had anything to declare he said only my genius said so we have four nobel prize winners in the literature space and i mean speaks volumes for the creativity that exists in art and not just in literature poetry music dance river dance for example a great expression of irish creativity on the world stage i was very proud of that and these are stories that are passed down from generation to generation and i'm very confident as a forward even with all the thank you so much for the warm welcome i received here looking forward to a great sympatric we can you your by the way definitely coming back again next year but we have a great team out here and i suppose the the relationship between art and in the united states is a very special one we saw only two million people from this part of the world come to our vast you're double the number it was six years ago and that speaks volumes for the relationships that exist between our countries not just on the diaspora front but also the friendship of the bonds through the foreign direct investment through the exports but principally through the cultural i mean one person said to me before these words we just get each other right and that sort of sums it up it's a unique relationship we just get each other and now you can travel to art and from eighteen different gateways in the united states i mean obviously traditional ones like new york boston chicago but now  travel i think of friends from around the world i've traveled to my lace here thailand india everywhere you're going to absolutely love the book and the recipes you will whet your appetite with these incredible our american recipes remember my world is need a little bit more and salmon was it was just and other dishes too but it was just a combination of everything that blended so well together it's farm to table it's fabulous and that's the kind of food that you prepare in ireland tell me the name of the result in behind you and they've given you certainly to to work with for the rest of your life why not use them you know i don't have to go anywhere else or the only to visit here nike and but you mentioned julia childs who does all french cooking are you influenced me and i think that's so secret for me to be able to keep that up even though i work in a massive resort and that's all i want to steal of as a five five star resort i think it's important to support to give our guests something special  this great food but i think also just exploring the country the countryside the farms the culture and the whole combination really just melts together you know i mean most people think of guinness and you're mixing guinness with other products and therefore it becomes a combination so seems we have a whiskey testing menu that we have we do so many other accompaniments of or all o but the north west of aren't going up to the likes of johnny called just so many of the other special places that's great i mean that's really wonderful you could explore the whole country and i think this is not a different from the different regions of south to the north of ireland areas and then roll through kissing some of the green products on the just from the north or the stars or the east or west it's from all of the different areas it's what makes us all fe years the bottlers were a very powerful norman family that arrived into our land in the twelfth century they derived their wealth from the fact that they were the chief boxers to the english crown that came with  holy trinity church in fact that stands in the heart of the medieval walled town and the focus for the extraordinary number of late medieval structures who arranged around the sides of the gr the normans came and built the town and the wall kept the irish out converted into a hotel and the lush grounds so around the property the lismore castle in gardens is spectacular and it has a canopy of trees i hope you enjoyed i only as much as i do i look forward to seeing you next week at another colorful desti