Many of us would have watched the Presidential Inauguration last week to get a sense of what Catherine Connolly would bring to the role.

We expect that her words and her actions will be a fair representation of modern Ireland, but can you get a sense of what the country was like from other aspects of the President's behaviour, like what they choose to eat for example?

Dr. Elaine Mahon is a Lecturer in Gastronomy and Food Studies at Technological University Dublin (TUD) and she’s been looking at what we can learn from Presidents’ inauguration menus through the years. She joins Tom Dunne to discuss.