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Neven Maguire is an Irish celebrity chef and television personality from Blacklion, County Cavan. He is also the head chef and proprietor of the MacNean House and Restaurant.
Maguire has published and launched several cookbooks and features regularly on television and radio in his native country. He writes a weekly column in the Irish Farmers Journal.
The restaurant, purchased by his father, Joe, in 1969, would be greatly affected by The Troubles, being bombed twice and shutting down for more than a decade between 1976 and 1989. He took over the business as Head Chef and Proprietor in 2003.
Following his Junior Certificate, Neven left school to attend Enniskillen College of Food. Upon graduating, Maguire worked in several restaurants in Europe. He commenced his overseas career in Berlin. He also worked in Roscoff Restaurant, Belfast, Northern Ireland (1 Michelin star), The Grand Hotel Restaurant, Berlin, Germany (2 Michelin stars), Lea Linster Restaurant, Luxembourg (2 Michelin stars) and Arzak Restaurant, San Sebastian, Spain (3 Michelin stars).
Neven and his wife, Amelda, are the parents of twins. Amelda nearly died during labour after her heart failed.
He is a practising Roman Catholic.
Neven was Resident Chef on Open House television series from 1998 until 2004. He has also featured in a number of other television programmes including 10 of the Best; Neven Cooks, a 6-part series which is broadcast in South Africa, Australia and on Food Network; Cook with Love, a documentary on his participation in the World Cooking Competition in Lyon in 2002 and Neven's Food from the Sun. Maguire is currently featured on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television network, Create TV where he hosts a cooking show entitled Neven Maguire: Home Chef.
He launched a cookbook for those with Parkinson's disease for the Parkinson's Association of Ireland.
One caller suggested the photos were "evidence of a pernicious heteronormativity", whilst another complained that "women are here to please men and we're supposed to have these perfect bodies". Another caller also expressed disappointment: "I really don't see what this bikini has to do with the pic. And I'm really disappointed with the women that they partake in this as well". Callers also expressed fears that the photos would lead to rape and the Sexualization of children.
John Masterson, writing in the Irish Independent, accused Liveline of "manufacturing" the fight, called the radio show a "kangaroo-court" and questioned why football manager Giovanni Trapattoni ("who had one more model than Neven in the same paper") was not equally guilty according to the feminists. However, Catherine O'Mahony, writing in The Sunday Business Post, praised the apology given by the magazine publisher as the whole affair was "pretty embarrassing for everyone connected with it". Model Nadia Forde furthered the controversy by saying "I don't think any chef would make it into a newspaper on his own", causing upset in the Irish cooking community and leading chef Derry Clarke to respond with the remark: "We chefs don't need models to make the papers. I have been in plenty of papers without the help of models". Maguire was not paid for his involvement in the photo shoot and five other chefs were also present to be photographed.
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