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HERE’S ANOTHER thing to add to the travel wish-list: the Cancun underwater museum project, MUSA, a series of 400 life-sized statues…

Sat Aug 06 2011 - 01:00

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Ask anyone who works in tourism or travel in Ireland and they’ll tell you they’ve been asked, at least once, “Where can I go …

Sat Jul 30 2011 - 01:00

My Day

Barbara Whelan - Manager Avis at Dublin Airport

Sat Jul 30 2011 - 01:00

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Unless you’re a petrol head, most cars you can probably take or leave

Sat Jul 23 2011 - 01:00

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Alexis Bernstorff - manager of the Ros tapestry exhibition, New Ross

Sat Jul 23 2011 - 01:00

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FANCY BRINGING out your inner Éamon de Buitléar? Anyone raised on his wonderful Amuigh Faoin Spéir programmes (time for some …

Sat Jul 16 2011 - 01:00

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ANYONE LOOKING to immerse themselves in art while on a citybreak should check out Propeller-Island City Lodge in (where else?) …

Sat Jul 09 2011 - 01:00

What lies beneath the rock?

GO NICHE: STRAIGHT OUT of the pages of a children’s story book, the magical “fairy chimneys” that dot the landscape of Cappadocia…

Sat Jul 02 2011 - 01:00

B&B in a Trojan horse

NICHE: IF MOVIE director Tim Burton ran a B&B, chances are it would look like this.

Sat Jun 25 2011 - 01:00

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Sweet pipe dreams: HERE’S ONE you might have difficulty selling for a citybreak

Sat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00

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SHORT NOTICE, I know, but if you’re down Connemara way this evening, or at a loose end anywhere else in the country and prepared…

Sat Jun 11 2011 - 01:00

Coming home to west Cork, from all over the world

Expats, English people, artists, even second homeowners are keeping west Cork afloat in the recession – but prices have come …

Thu Jun 09 2011 - 01:00

Teeing off on a golfing cruise

GO NICHE: TORN BETWEEN a golf holiday and a cruise? Why not do both.

Sat Jun 04 2011 - 01:00

Choc full of sweet dreams

Go Niche: DISNEYLAND is all very well, but what’s it missing? That’s right, chocolate

Sat May 28 2011 - 01:00

A nose for a good story

GO NICHE : ANYONE WITH any sort of nose for a mystery, or who is simply nosey, will have wondered why so many statues from the…

Sat May 21 2011 - 01:00

My Day

Siobhan O'Sullivan , director of sales and marketing at Fitzwilliam Hotel, Belfast in conversation with SANDRA O'CONNELL

Sat May 21 2011 - 01:00

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IF YOU’VE got designs on a trip up to Dublin this summer, make the effort to get there in June.

Sat May 14 2011 - 01:00

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IF THE GOOD weather keeps up – and apologies if I’ve just hexed it – there’s going to be no better summer to get up close and…

Sat May 07 2011 - 01:00

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By SANDRA O'CONNELL

Sat Apr 30 2011 - 01:00

My day

NOELEEN TYRRELL - Ard Nahoo retreat, Co. Leitrim

Sat Apr 30 2011 - 01:00

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WHAT WOULD humankind be without its devotion to rituals? Over the years, Go Niche has stumbled upon all sorts of weird and wonderful…

Sat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00

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PLANS FOR the June bank holiday still a bit woolly? Well, have we the event for you.

Sat Apr 16 2011 - 01:00

Spirit of independence rules in Wexford, a county where the sun nearly always shines

Wexford has a lively capital town with an identity all its own – and the county is fringed with golden sands

Thu Apr 14 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

EVER WONDERED what the thinking man’s holiday home might look like? Well now we know.

Sat Apr 09 2011 - 01:00

My Day

Seán Heffernan - Head Gardener, Mount Usher Gardens

Sat Apr 02 2011 - 01:00

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TWO WEEKS ago, Go Niche referred to a survey that placed Cavan second to Rio de Janeiro as the most “searched” destination for…

Sat Apr 02 2011 - 01:00

Walking fest runs for a week

GO NICHE : FOR ANYONE who thought walking was a simple matter of putting one foot in front of the other, the 53 Degrees North…

Sat Mar 26 2011 - 00:00

Crane swung in to action as hotel

GO NICHE : TIME WAS when we used to count the cranes on the skyline as a barometer of economic activity

Sat Mar 19 2011 - 00:00

Rio wins, and in second place is . . . well, Cavan

Go Niche: THERE ARE LIES, damned lies and statistics, but what are we to think about surveys?

Sat Mar 12 2011 - 00:00

There's no business like snow business

Go Niche: VERY OFTEN the first thing you’ll do when you’re booking an hotel in an unfamiliar city is look for an hotel chain…

Sat Mar 05 2011 - 00:00

Show goes on in Rio

GO NICHE : SO HOT are the costumes at Rio’s famous Carnival, it may be no surprise to hear they went up in smoke earlier this…

Sat Feb 26 2011 - 00:00

Airline seeks transsexual cabin crew

GO NICHE : THE ANNOUNCEMENT that new Thai airline PC Air is to recruit transsexuals as cabin crew has proven a coup in marketing…

Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00

Space - the final package tour

Go Niche: WHILE SOME of us are still pondering whether or not to go to France again, 400 more adventurous souls have already…

Sat Feb 12 2011 - 00:00

Hotels that stack up

GO NICHE: WITH AROUND 100 hotels now indirectly controlled by Nama, and many more around the country surplus to tourism requirements…

Sat Feb 05 2011 - 00:00

Swapping places with the crew

GO NICHE: AH HERE. I’ve heard it all now

Sat Jan 29 2011 - 00:00

Hotels react to allergies

GO NICHE : ALLERGIES don’t take a holiday just because you do

Sat Jan 22 2011 - 00:00

Begorrah, 'tis a Disney break in Ireland

Go Niche: DISNEY’S VERSION of Ireland is so lovely you’d want to go there yourself.

Sat Jan 15 2011 - 00:00

My day

Robbie Gleeson speaks to SANDRA O'CONNELL

Sat Jan 08 2011 - 00:00

Winter ski and sun holiday combined

SAY CYPRUS and the first thing you think of is sun. Or maybe Aphrodite. What you’re unlikely to think of is skiing.

Sat Jan 08 2011 - 00:00

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IT WOULDN’T have made any difference to tell you about this one earlier because it’s been booked out for weeks and always is…

Fri Dec 24 2010 - 00:00

Kingdom warms to ice climbing

THE KERRY mountains have been looking more Alpine than ever this past few weeks and if, as expected, the snows make a return …

Sat Dec 18 2010 - 00:00

My day

I USED TO work in finance and worked here as a volunteer tour guide at the weekends

Sat Dec 04 2010 - 00:00

My Day

Conor O'Connell - concierge

Sat Nov 27 2010 - 00:00

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WHEN WAS the last time a hotel made you smile? If the answer is never, then you haven’t yet come across the Inntel Hotel in Zaandam…

Sat Nov 27 2010 - 00:00

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EVER FOUND yourself free of a night and wondering what’s worth going out for and what’s not going to cost you money?

Sat Nov 20 2010 - 00:00

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WHERE DO horses and powder hounds meet? At the White Turf Horse Race in St Moritz, Switzerland, of course.

Sat Nov 13 2010 - 00:00

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WHEN IS A hotel not a hotel? If you think you know, then you haven’t yet been to the Pixel Hotel, in the Austrian city of Linz…

Sat Nov 06 2010 - 00:00

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IS THIS the world’s most romantic hotel? Las Ventanas al Paraiso, in Los Cabos, Mexico, takes the love life of its guests so …

Sat Oct 30 2010 - 01:00

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WITH ALL these terrorist travel alerts flying around the place, is there anything you can do to protect yourself before booking…

Sat Oct 23 2010 - 01:00

Epic deal for singles

IS THERE anything as unfair in travel as the dreaded single supplement? Having to pay a prohibitive levy simply for wanting to…

Sat Oct 16 2010 - 01:00
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