She is a regular contributor to radio and TV programmes (Drivetime and Countrywide, RTÉ Radio 1) and to newspapers and magazines (Irish Times, Irish Independent). She is also the author, with her husband Philip Boucher Hayes, of Basketcase: What’s Happening to Ireland’s Food, which poses the challenging question: ‘When did the nation that was married to the land lose its inner culchie?’ and discusses what Ireland has lost in its headlong rush towards cosmopolitanism. The expression ‘food for thought’ was devised for events like this.