It’s Newport Beach for this girl! This week in between reading and sleeping on the beach I’ve been dipping my feet in the cool and refreshing pacific ocean waves. Only occasionally applying sunblock and I’ve got to get better with that! There is a cute bar called the Beachcomber just steps away serving drinks...
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Last April we drove from the midlands in the Republic of Ireland up to Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland to take in the sites at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Saint Patrick founded his first stone Church in Ireland on the site which is now occupied by St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, known as Sally Hill,...
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It was a Spring evening in Newport Beach, California and we all met up at a restaurant called The Ritz. Now it’s not the Ritz Carlton hotels, no it’s simply a fine dining establishment across the street from Fashion Island offering one of the greatest bars and an arms length menu of designer cocktails...
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This gorgeous, adventurous and inviting garden is arranged along the banks of the tiny and winding River Vartry. Mount Usher Gardens has been designed in what’s known as the Robinsonian style, meaning trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants have been brought together from around the globe and planted in harmony with woodland and shade loving...
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The Irish State will have to pay up to €200 million to compensate Waterford Crystal workers for the loss of their pension benefits. The European Court of Justice found in favour of the Waterford Crystal workers who took a case against the State for the loss of their pensions when the company collapsed. There...
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A lone slithery reptile went slithering up St.Mary’s Street in Dublin city center this week. Many shoppers and passersby got quite a fright to see the foreign body making his way up the popular shopping street. It turns out the youngster was merely a 1 year old mixed breed boa constrictor, who posed no...
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A Longford father of two who scooped over €1m in Saturday night’s national lottery only purchased his winning ticket because of a last minute decision to visit his local butcher. Ger Hand only made his way into Lanesboro with the view of picking up a few items from the south Longford village’s sole meat...
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The Commitments, the hugely successful and popular film directed by Sir Alan Parker based on the bestselling book the same name, is heading to the stage. The story follows a group of working-class Dubliners who form an unlikely soul band. It has taken the writer Roddy Doyle 25 years to realise what a great...
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Find yourself in Dublin and want to learn more about the culture and history of it’s people? Well then have I got an idea for you! The National Library is located in the city center and offers world class exhibitions about the world renowned Irish poet, playwright and all around funny man, William B....
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