Author Archives: Pól Ó Conghaile
Review: Source Sligo
There’s a brilliant photograph of Ben Bulben in Source Sligo. Dominating the back wall of the restaurant, it casts the looming mountain – Yeats’s famous “bare Ben Bulben’s head” – as [...]
Check Your Passport, Or Risk Losing Your Holiday…
Passports, tickets, money. It’s the Holy Trinity of overseas travel. So why are hordes of Irish holidaymakers leaving it to the last minute to renew their out-of-date passports? In the [...]
Sin City Says No to Social Media…
Some 50,000 Irish holidaymakers visited Sin City in 2011, according to the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority. That’s an amazing figure. How, in the middle of a recession, can [...]
10 Top Home Holidays for 2012
The Activity Escape: Hiking the Blaskets Air doesn’t get much fresher than on the Blasket Islands, those beautiful patches of wilderness punching up out of the Atlantic Ocean off the Dingle [...]
10 Top Summer Holidays for 2012
The Flight-Free Holiday: Brittany by Ferry The Pont-Aven setting sail from Ringaskiddy to Roscoff is one of Cork’s quintessential summer sights – crammed with camper vans, buckets and spades and families [...]
Review: Cava, Galway
Tapas are a quintessentially Spanish way of eating. When you think about it, though, shouldn’t this conversation-friendly cuisine, with its sociable portions and sharp focus on ingredients, be a good fit for [...]
Hotels: It’s Time to go Back to Basics…
Getting the basics right is a core mantra in business. So why are so many hotels, many of them welcoming guests for decades, getting so many basics wrong? Think of [...]
Review: Gleeson’s Townhouse, Roscommon
‘Place on a plate’. It’s more than just a foodie catchphrase, you know. Right now, Fáilte Ireland is campaigning to encourage Irish restaurants, bars, cafes and hotels to put local [...]
Gaeltacht Company Launches Luxury London Site…
Ten London five-stars teaming up with an Irish company based in the Gaeltacht to launch a concept website? It sound likes a dream, but www.5ivestarlondon.com is now a reality. The [...]
Short Stay: Generator Hostel, Dublin
We all like the idea of cheap accommodation. Say the word ‘hostel’, however, and that idea is often intruded upon by visions of smelly dorms, noisy corridors and crummy breakfasts. [...]
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