Brennans Lane

Anthony and Geraldine Heffernan's long-established family butchery has undergone several revamps in recent years and, while it is still a butchers shop with café, deli, and bakery, Heffernans Fine Foods has developed considerably of late. Butchery remains the cor ...

Situated just outside Ballina amidst 1,000 acres of woodland and forestry, on the banks of the River Moy, Paul Doran’s castle was the ancestral home of the Earl of Arran and, with a 16th century armoury, big open fires and massive chandeliers among many quirky feat ...

For many, angling is the lifeblood of Co Mayo and the River Moy is its heart. A one stop shop of a very different kind is Michael and PJ Tiernan's 'Angling Advice Centre' and Fresh Fish Shop, an extraordinary place with a century and a half's experience of providing ever ...

Patricia and Roger McCarrick's beautiful Georgian style family home, Coill Dara (Wood of Oak), is set in an acre of landscaped gardens on a small sheep farm on the edge of Tubbercurry. It has views of the Ox Mountains, great mature beech and oak trees in the woods at o ...

In the same family ownership as Dublin’s stylish Saba (see entry) and Saba to Go, Mark Cadden’s gastropub is the busiest bar food venue in the Castlebar area - and that is as it should be as their parents, Mary and Michael, were pioneers of the catering indus ...

The Great Western Greenway brings a lot of people to Newport, and the town is the better for it. The Blue Bicycle is on the ground floor of an impressive stone building with steps leading up to it, on the right as you head for Achill - and many of the visitors who are l ...