This award-winning garden centre and shopping emporium near Tullow is a good place for a journey break, or even a family day out - their Santa Train is famous, for example.
In addition to an exceptionally wide range of quality goods for garden and hom ... more...
This friendly big restaurant is in the old golf club right on the seafront and run by members of the Morelli family. It's an offshoot of the famous Morelli Ice Cream business - their flagship ice cream parlour and café is in a landmark premises ... more...
Jack and Theo Kirwan have built a loyal following for the Sprout & Co Kitchen chain with impressive speed and efficiency. The brand began life in 2013 as Sprout Food Company, a small juice concession in Avoca’s Rathcoole outlet where Jack had ... more...
A keen beekeeper, Patrick Healy, developed a business from his hobby when he established this company in the 1970s.
It is now a successful family-run enterprise producing, purchasing and distributing honey, which is widely available from independent s ... more...
Abalone are a highly prized shellfish delicacy, now scarce in most countries where they were once plentiful. Known as much for their beautiful iridescent shells as for the delicately flavoured meat, this exotic shellfish is not something one might expe ... more...
Kilkeel is one of Ireland's most important fishing ports and, as the home of Northern Ireland’s largest fishing fleet, it's become known as the “Seafood Capital of the Mountains of Mourne”.
Overlooking Kilkeel harbour, the Nautilus ... more...
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What a delight it is for the visitor to happen on Thomas and Bernie O'Keeffe's cosy and well-run harbourside pub.
With its handsome traditional ‘drinking bar’ on the right and much larger lounge bar (where f ... more...
Ireland can boast a good few high quality smoked salmon producers and here, on the south side of Galway Bay, Declan Droney's family business in the picturesque seaside village of Kinvara is among the most highly praised.
Personal endorsements aboun ... more...
Between Mulranny and Newport, beside Newfield Church, you'll find this very pleasant pub, run by local couple John and Anne Nevin. Dating from the mid-1800's, it has been in the Nevin family since 1970.
There is outside seating for fine weather dining ... more...
They do quirky traditional very well in County Clare - and nowhere better than at this grey-painted two-storey house in Ennistymon, which has charmed visitors and locals alike since it reopened in May 2018.
Pot Duggan is a venture by publican Trev O&r ... more...