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Ireland: Gab meets gastro
A string of updated pub restaurants make great pit stops for Louise Goldsbury's family road trip.
A string of updated pub restaurants make great pit stops for Louise Goldsbury's family road trip.
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David Whitley shows us three different ways to make the most of a day in Ireland's capital.
It's not the stereotypical version of an island. There's no sun, for starters.
A century-old bathhouse is doing a roaring trade in affordable spa treatments, writes Nick Fisher.
Daniel Scott visits the liner's final port of call, a town in Cork that is no stranger to tragedy.
On the border country's winding back roads, Tom Neal Tacker loses his way but finds poetry and echoes of 'old' Ireland.
To start with, being told to 'feck off' isn't as bad as you might think.
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From Dublin and its cheery pub culture to the windswept Cliffs of Moher, the beguiling Skellig Islands and the Aran Island forts, Ireland is both mysterious and desolate, yet colourful, warm and welcoming. Its green hills blanketed in mist house the ruins of ancient castles with a bloody history, while its colourful towns are awash with cosy pubs that radiate with traditional live music and friendly people.