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Photo of the week: racing currachs at rest
This writer's and artist's retreat can be rented year round. There's more
Award-wining restaurant at the end of the world....
Our friends Rory and Marie Therese (above) have been awarded the Restaurant of the Year Award from Hospitality Ireland Magazine 2008. Inis Meáin Restaurant & Suites won one of 3 Restaurant of the Year Awards from Hospitality Ireland at the Four Seasons in Dublin on the 30th of October. The other two award winners were Locks and The Residence, both in Dublin. Judges include food critics Tom Doorley, Ernie Whalley and Domini Kemp.
Islander Ruairí de Blacam has together with his Cork born wife Marie-Therese realised a dream - to open a top class restaurant and rooms on Inis Meain, the most special of the three Aran Islands. The bold modern design is exceptional in this stark limestone landscape. An RTE film presents this 21st century couple who tell a tale of love and life and the pursuit of excellence. Watch the first programme of the 2008 series:
http://www.rte.ie/tv/oilean/inismeain.html
Click here for the whole series
Atlantic Picnic: the shipwreck of the Plassy on Inis Oirr
Artist Ray Forkan's painting of the Plassy on Inis Oirr, There's more
Surfing the Cliffs of Moher: MacCarthy aboard a giant wave near Aran
Photo Mark Wankel
Photo of the week: racing currachs at rest
Saving the hay beside a WiFi & windpower thatched cottage
This writer's and artist's retreat can be rented year round. There's more
Award-wining restaurant at the end of the world....
Our friends Rory and Marie Therese (above) have been awarded the Restaurant of the Year Award from Hospitality Ireland Magazine 2008. Inis Meáin Restaurant & Suites won one of 3 Restaurant of the Year Awards from Hospitality Ireland at the Four Seasons in Dublin on the 30th of October. The other two award winners were Locks and The Residence, both in Dublin. Judges include food critics Tom Doorley, Ernie Whalley and Domini Kemp.
Islander Ruairí de Blacam has together with his Cork born wife Marie-Therese realised a dream - to open a top class restaurant and rooms on Inis Meain, the most special of the three Aran Islands. The bold modern design is exceptional in this stark limestone landscape. An RTE film presents this 21st century couple who tell a tale of love and life and the pursuit of excellence. Watch the first programme of the 2008 series:
http://www.rte.ie/tv/oilean/inismeain.html
Click here for the whole series
Atlantic Picnic: the shipwreck of the Plassy on Inis Oirr
Artist Ray Forkan's painting of the Plassy on Inis Oirr, There's more
Surfing the Cliffs of Moher: MacCarthy aboard a giant wave near Aran
Photo Mark Wankel
Surfing the giant wave Aileen at Aill na Searracht off the Cliffs of Moher near the Aran Islands is "like snowboarding down a big mountain" says John MacCarthy.
There's more
A Man May Fish
Gavin with a nice Lough Corrib trout taken on a wet fly There's more
A Man May Fish
Gavin with a nice Lough Corrib trout taken on a wet fly There's more
