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These days there is a pilgrim hostel here at the centre of 30 kilometres of walking trails. Visitors to Mount Melleray can visit the Abbey Church with its magnificent stained-glass east window, browse through the Cistercian Heritage Centre, and have a coffee in the volunteer-run café
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From an eerie cave in Co Waterford to the world’s most haunted castle in Co Offaly
Oh, how we laughed during the Celtic Tiger years. As we boarded the homeward flight with our bags of duty-free and real estate brochures, the cynics among us giggled at the 'home holiday', as they called it back then. The rain, the 'Irish salad' (a hard-boiled egg, a slice of Calvita cheese, a limp leaf of lettuce) and the pubs closing at 10pm of a Sunday night; when 'Music Lounge' meant misty-eyed ould fellas crying into their lukewarm pints, while singing some 'come-all-ye' extolling the virtue of misery and the Emerald Isle.
Oh, how we laughed during the Celtic Tiger years. As we boarded the homeward flight with our bags of duty-free and real estate brochures, the cynics among us giggled at the 'home holiday', as they called it back then. The rain, the 'Irish salad' (a hard-boiled egg, a slice of Calvita cheese, a limp leaf of lettuce) and the pubs closing at 10pm of a Sunday night; when 'Music Lounge' meant misty-eyed ould fellas crying into their lukewarm pints, while singing some 'come-all-ye' extolling the virtue of misery and the Emerald Isle.