Hotels
Rush hour in Dublin Airport is 5am. That's when the transatlantic flights land. You arrive at the hotel at 6am and ask for an early check-in, hoping that your bedraggled look will magically open up an occupied room. Not happening. Now you have to kill time. But
Local Observations
When you're wandering any Irish town looking for somewhere good to eat, stop staring at your phone and start looking at the front doors. The entrances to our best restaurants display plaques from Irish food critics like Lucinda O’Sullivan’s stars, McKenna’s Guides, or Georgina Campbell.
Dublin
Go to Howth Early or Go Late During The Week. Howth is no secret in Dublin. 500k people came to this small village last year. Some friends landed in DUB yesterday afternoon. I picked them up and we walked the Howth cliffs at 5pm. The cliffs were empty. We had
Dublin
I've walked past it for decades, but this was my first time crossing its threshold. It was not my choice. I had friends visiting, and for them, The Temple Bar was a mandatory stop. They were as appalled at the idea of skipping it as I was at