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Darina Allen's recipes for Sweet Chilli sauce and Chilli Oil

As many of us know from painful experiments, chillies are not cool, they are hot in varying degrees. Chillies vary in intensity from a barely discernible prickle to a mouth searing pain that can render the courageous diner speechless and virtually incapacitated. I've seen grown men who pride themselves in being macho, struggle to conceal their extreme discomfort with eyes bulging as they cough and splutter.

Billy Leahy looks at an impressive showcase of young talent at the RHA's Recent Graduates 2005 exhibition

Billy Leahy speaks to Ross McDonnell and Noel Brennan as they launch their joint exhibition, Warsaw, at the Goethe Institute, Dublin

Colin Murphy tells a tale of two Shakespeares at the Dublin Theatre Festival

Darina Allen on how to make delicious desserts using autumn blackberries

You'll need to get out there fast to catch the last of the blackberries. There's something wonderfully so...

A new photography exhibition by James Morris looks at the West African butabu, a mud building constructed by the whole community. Billy Leahy examines this unique phenomenon

The avant garde had a distinctly retro look at the Fringe last week. Project's downstairs theatre space may be more used to experimental, abstract productions, but for the entire week it was transformed into a cross between a GP's waiting room and a talk-show studio. The Framemakers crew had spent the preceding days wandering through Temple Bar, begging and borrowing furniture and decorations for their Seven Days of Everything project. The result was an elegant brown leather suite (replete with its product-placement price tag), some art on the walls and various bits of eclectic clutter.

DARINA'S RECIPE OF THE WEEK Queso de Cabra con Miel - Goat Cheese with Honey on Toast (eaten at the local restaurant in Los Arieros in Andalucia) *1 slice of sour dough or yeast bread *soft goat cheese, eg. Ardsallagh, St Tola *honey *thyme leaves Toast or chargrill the bread.Cut the slice of toasted bread into strips approx one inch thickness. Reassemble the slice as you transfer it onto a small baking sheet. Top with slices of goat cheese. Sprinkle with some fresh thyme leaves and drizzle with honey.