A ferry crewman who has crossed to every inhabited Irish island ranks the five worth a winter visit and his first pick has no hotel 20 October 2026
Forget Clifden — the harbour village on the quiet side of Connemara gets the same light and none of the coaches 20 October 2026
They bought the old garda barracks in a Cavan village for the price of a site and the holding cell is now the pantry 20 October 2026
A Swedish couple bought a hill farm in the Sperrins and the neighbours taught them to lamb by phone that first spring 20 October 2026
An Edenderry pair retired to a small walled town in northern Spain where the rain felt like home and the rent did not 19 October 2026
An aunt nobody had seen since the eighties left her cottage outside Ballymore Eustace to the niece who kept sending Christmas cards 19 October 2026
A couple spend every winter as caretakers of a shut holiday village in Kerry and have the pool to themselves 19 October 2026
At 58 she bought a small flat on the Croatian coast on her own — ‘I stopped waiting for someone to come with me’ 19 October 2026
The battered cod at a small Donegal chipper has just been crowned the best in Ireland and the town is enjoying every minute of it 18 October 2026
