Ireland is a love story. Our city streets and pastoral countryside are stages upon which some of the world’s greatest love stories have played out. Our wordsmiths have crafted some of the most romantic feats of penmanship ever – see Patrick Kavanagh’s Raglan Road or WB Yeats’ He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. Oh, [...]

County Clare is preparing for the tide of dancing and romancing that rushes in with the upcoming Matchmaking Festival. Picture, for a moment, an Irish farmer in September, carefully reviewing his To Do list and scratching off his tasks: 1. Gather harvest Tick. 2. Shoe horses Tick His eyes fall to the final line: 3. [...]

As much as we love a good knees-up in Ireland, we enjoy our downtime just as much (maybe even more). Take weddings for example – we’ll be the last to leave the dancefloor but we’ll know just how to wind things down afterwards. So with such a knack for relaxing, maybe Ireland would be a [...]