News Archive
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Isaac's Restaurant
30 November 2011
Every City in the world has a restaurant that personifies its people, a buzzy busy brasserie that is the destination for birthdays, conferrings, family celebrations, or just a good night out with good friends. In Paris it might be La Coupole, in London
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Restaurant Review - GOOD COOKING
29 November 2011
Some of our restaurants lost out on the awards front recently, while others go from strength to strength, says Lucinda O'Sullivan, who revisits two worthy winners and remains well pleased
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Our Latest Great Place to Stay & Eat - Absolute Hotel Limerick
29 November 2011
Limerick is a great City which has come on in leaps and bounds in the area of food and sleek accommodation over the past four or five years making it an even more desirable destination to visit. One of the fabulous additions over this period has been...
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RESTAURANT REVIEW - CORFU
24 November 2011
Not everything coming out of Greece these days is a total disaster, says Lucinda O’Sullivan. Their economy may be on the skids, but Corfu restaurant is one export we’re more than happy to see here
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Lucinda talks to Sunil Ghai of Ananda
23 November 2011
Public get a taste for fine Indian dining The Irish are beginning to appreciate true Indian cuisine, Sunil Ghai tells
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Our Latest Great Place to Stay & Eat - Keenan's of Tarmonbarry
17 November 2011
Luckily you don’t have to be a ‘ Toad of Toad Hall’ mucking around on the river to enjoy Keenan’s of Tarmonbarry. Certainly my better half was never good on the waterways and regales us regularly about how he and six of his mates, in their single days, u
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Our Latest Great Place to Stay & Eat - Dunloe Castle
16 November 2011
There are more hotels in Killarney than in any other town in the country, and some fabulous hotels at that. Top of the range on all fronts from comfort, luxury, friendliness, and liveability, not forgetting superb food, is the 5 Star Hotel Dunloe Castle.
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Our Latest Great Place to Stay & Heat - The Castle Hotel Macroom
16 November 2011
I have a great regard and love for family run hotels that have been of service to their community and area for generations. We see so much of this Abroad in France and Italy but we have just as many wonderful such establishments here in Ireland.
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Slaney Country Market
14 November 2011
Every Saturday morning in the heart Bunclody a group of dedicated ladies gather to sell their food and artistic produce at the Slaney Country Market. Bunclody is a very pictueresque town in itself, in North County Wexford on the Co. Carlow border.
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Restaurant Review - The Magpie Inn
14 November 2011
Ever more we are veering towards the casual relaxed value dining ethos with good Tapas, Italian, and Gastropubs all flying. We have always wanted to dine like our Continental neighbours on a regular basis on reasonably priced simple food and
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Our Latest Great Place to Eat - Aniar
07 November 2011
We can expect to see mini ‘Noma’s’ popping up worldwide faster than High Street copies of Catwalk designs over the next couple of years. Rene Redzepi’s Noma Restaurant in Copenhagen, voted the San Pellegrino World’s No. 1 Restaurant for 2010 and 2011, h
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Our Latest Great Place to Stay & Eat
04 November 2011
The Harlequin Hotel is a modern boutique hotel in Castlebar which is furnished in boutique style with chandeliers, plush buttonbacked feature chairs and sofas, lovely Venetian mirrors, beautiful throws, funky details, all of which are uplifting and bright
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GREAT PLACES TO STAY IN LONDON
04 November 2011
Had a great visit to London where shopped til we dropped, had fab food, and checked out a couple of great hotels...
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Our Latest Great Place to Stay & Eat
03 November 2011
Le tout Irlande was mesmerised in 1969 when the late General and Mme de Gaulle came on a two week visit to Ireland. The paparazzi of the day ducked in and out trying to get black and white pictures of this legendary tall tall man relaxing in Connemara.