A record 210000 walkers crossed this Wicklow trail last year and a new August parking system starts on the 1st 2 August 2026
No need to fly to Italy — more Irish families are booking the lakes of Fermanagh for their August week instead 2 August 2026
At 84 she has swum at the Forty Foot every morning for thirty-one years — ʼAugust is the only month it is genuinely warmʼ 2 August 2026
A Trim family moved to Inishbofin for a school year meant to be temporary and are still there four winters on 2 August 2026
They swapped a Naas mortgage for a secondhand campervan and have been working from coast car parks since April 1 August 2026
A village on the Ring of Gullion has turned up on a European guideʼs shortlist of the quietest summer escapes 1 August 2026
Under €90 a night in August gets you a sea-view room on the Sheepʼs Head and half the peninsula to yourself 1 August 2026
Slower than the Antrim coast road and prettier from the window the Ballymena to Coleraine line is the summer ride nobody books 1 August 2026