Once upon a time – as all the best stories go – Ireland was in the tropics!! No, not a fairy tale – and if you’ve a hard time believing it you should see the weather outside right now! So we start off in shallow tropical seas, throw in some shifting tectonic plates, add a […]

I reckoned that I must have been the only person in the country not familiar in some way with the Slieve Russell Hotel – I’d never played golf there, never attended a wedding, never booked a weekend break and never even knew where it was actually located. I was finally heading there on Sunday night, […]