- March 7, 2016Narrow Water Castle at the bottle-neck of the Newry Water which runs into Carlingford Lough was built after the restoration…
- March 3, 2016Inistioge (“Teoc’s or Tighe’s Island”) is a most pleasant example of the little Irish village with church, cross, spirit-grocery, petrol-pump…
- February 29, 2016As Edinburgh expanded in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many old tenements were demolished and new bridges were…
- February 25, 2016“Praise the beach when you come to it”, runs the Gaelic saying, and Rossnowlagh (the Wood of the Apples) is…
- February 22, 2016From the rugged ridges of Ben More and the black basalt crags of Burg to the blinding white sand, rose-pink…
- February 14, 2016Glasgow is regenerating and evolving at a dizzying pace – style cats beware, this city is edgy, modish and downright…
- February 11, 2016Mount Brandon, austere and impressive at all times, cloudy at most times, dominates Brandon Bay across whose waters the light…
- February 8, 2016Edinburgh’s Old Town stretches along a ridge to the east of the Castle, and tumbles down Victoria Street to the…
- February 5, 2016On the road from Limerick to Killarney is Adare (Ath Dara, the ford of the oaks) on the river Maigue.…
- January 31, 2016It was in the Mournes I learnt that there is no better way to know the nerve of a mountain…