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May June 1996 Issue

Sláinte: The Mighty Salmon

By Edythe Preet, Columnist
August / September 2014

July 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment

While health practitioners now praise the protein and amino acids provided by salmon, it has long had its place in Irish history simply because it is such good eating. Every year more than 180,000 people visit Ireland expressly to engage in an activity that has been one of the island’s top drawing cards since the first intrepid hunter-gatherers arrived over 7,000 years ago: … [Read more...] about Sláinte: The Mighty Salmon

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