From the moment you enter the bright reception area of this family-run, eco-friendly hotel you can tell there's someone who cares at the helm.
Built in the late 1960s, the hotel is now run by Michael Lennon and family: an affable, hands-on owner manag ... more...
A ferry from Ballycastle will take you to Rathlin Island, which is Northern Ireland's largest offshore island and located six miles off the Antrim coast.
Renowned especially for bird watching, Rathlin is eight miles long and less than one mile wide an ... more...
Airy, bright and modern, with design by well-known Hong Kong interior designer Cindy Lee, this restaurant has lots of windows and is arranged stylishly with tables in the centre and booths around the sides. There’s also a circular glass VIP room ... more...
To grab a table at the front of Eileen and Sam McNicholl's atmospheric pub, Connolly’s of Leap, is to be noticed outside one of West Cork’s coolest venues. Inside, the walls drip with musical history; but for now, the iconic but diminutive ... more...
Chocolate / Confectionery / Internet/Phone Mail Order / Online Shop / Producers Shop
Jamie and Beatrice O'Neill run this connoisseur chocolate company ChocOneill from their workshop in Dunbeggan, Aughnacliffe, which you can visit by appointment on weekdays (please phone in advance).
They specialise in single origin chocolate and use f ... more...
Run by Mary Casey, this gloriously old fashioned pub is at the 'top of the town'. A favourite destination for many regular visitors, it only opens in the evenings and is a place for impromptu sessions and late night craic. more...
This large shop and restaurant, off the N11 south of Dublin, is the flagship premises of Ireland’s most famous group of craft shops and, they have become equally well known for the quality of their food - people come here from miles around to sho ... more...
Younger sister to Nicholas Lynch’s well known fish shop in Ashbourne Co Meath, NicksFish Newbridge was opened in 2010 and offers the same high standards of seafood and service.
Nick, a former fisherman himself, sources much of the fresh fish di ... more...
Italians Marco Giannantonio and Maurizio Mastrangelo teamed up to open this authentic restaurant and winebar beneath the Ranelagh Luas station. (They also run an Italian cookery school, catering company and gourmet travel company.)
This Dublin restaur ... more...
Small, stylish and light-flooded, Margadh RHA is a café by day and wine bar by night. No ordinary wine bar, it punches well above its weight with the kind of menu that wouldn’t be out of place at a top restaurant. Tapping into the zeitgeis ... more...
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