Irish writer and youth leader get food (5)
I believe the answer is:
yeats
'irish writer' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'youth leader get food' is the wordplay.
'youth leader' becomes 'y' (I've seen this in other clues).
'get' says to put letters next to each other.
'food' becomes 'eats' (eats can mean food).
'y'+'eats'='YEATS'
'and' is the link.
(Other definitions for yeats that I've seen before include "he wrote" , "William Butler .. . . ., Nobel-winning poet" , "W.B. - (Irish poet)" , "literary figure" , "Irish poet (The Winding Stair)" .)