Ireland

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Dunbrody House Hotel. Old style hospitality in beautiful Wexford.

Dunbrody House Hotel is a historic hotel catalogued in Ireland’s prestigious long-running Blue Book that comprises some of the finest Downton Abbey style estates.

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Round Britain Cruise on Royal Princess

For many International travellers, perhaps the best way of exploring the British Iles is from the comfort of a luxury cruise ship. Andy Mossack joins Royal Princess at Edinburgh for the last few days of her 12 night around Britain cruise.

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Slieve Russell Hotel

Slieve Russell Hotel. Discover the charm of Ulster’s luxury resort

The iconic Slieve Russell Hotel is certainly popular and draws families, golfers, tennis players, wedding parties and nosey journalists from across Ireland and from much further afield.

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Lough Eske Castle Hotel and Spa. Donegal has never looked so good.

As I walked down the Lough Eske Castle steps the following day, I felt I had been in ‘a friend’s home’, where the live egg station breakfast cook seemed to know everyone’s names

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Kilronanan Castle Estate and Spa. County Roscommon has never looked so good.

It was good fortune that brought me an hour early to the Drawing Room Bar so that I could sample a glass of Guinness, served with that the special care and magic that you only find in Ireland.

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G Hotel Galway. Ireland’s glamourous celebrity magnet.

Mad Max meeting Royal Ascot with a light dusting of Vegas stardust comes to mind entering the G Hotel Galway wandering from a glitzy silver grey grand salon hung with two hundred enormous glass ball light installations into a lipstick pink lounge displaying Andy Warhol print fabric covered chairs.

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