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Sat 04 Apr 2007Whirled cuisineAoibheann MacNamara made the news this month for giving away the contents of her new restaurant. Deirdre McQuillanmeets a powerhouse of creative ideasAoibheann MacNamara, who founded Galway's funky Ard Bia restaurant and gallery and has just taken over Nimmo's restaurant, behind the Spanish Arch, is a small hand grenade of a woman, full of explosive energy and vitality. In the middle of the city's water-pollution crisis, only someone of her calibre and confidence would open another restaurant unfazed by the prospect of having to wash everything in boiled or bottled water. Her take on the outbreak is as unconventional as she is. "We're not all dropping dead. I look on it as free colonic irrigation, a clean-out, darling," she says. ("Darling" is a favourite term of address.)