Staycation? Don't mind if I do

I never understood the appeal of 'going to look at the planes'. My mother, who grew up in Ennis, talks fondly of Sunday drives to Shannon, where she and her siblings would be encouraged to watch the planes landing and taking off from Co Clare's most cosmopolitan location. It's always seemed to me like a poor [...]

Gourmets, gluttons and drinkers of distinction welcome in Dingle

The Dingle Food Festival is one of the country’s best kept secrets, although in the three years since I was last there, it seems they have rather let the cat out of the bag. With bigger crowds than ever before, one organiser estimated that it brought 20,000 visitors to the town this year. The [...]

Does Munster matter?

It's a serious question. What happened to the Atlantic Corridor, bringing transport links and growth to the three cities of the West? Well, we got the Limerick to Galway motorway, and that's wonderful. But it's not quite a corridor when on both ends of that lovely piece of tarmac there are roads that are potholed, single [...]