The D Hotel
Slick, hip and unexpected, this is Drogheda's top dog when it comes to accommodation. Minimalist rooms are bathed in light and decked out with designer furniture and cool gadgets...
Slick, hip and unexpected, this is Drogheda's top dog when it comes to accommodation. Minimalist rooms are bathed in light and decked out with designer furniture and cool gadgets...
The lobby at this local institution is always a scene: old friends sprawl on the sofas, deals are cut at the tables and ladies from the neighbouring church's altar society exchange gossip over tea...
Every attention is lavished upon guests at this award-winning B&B. The legendary breakfast menu (30 choices!) includes fresh fish, French toast, omelettes and a whole lot more...
Getting away from it all is an understatement at this mid-19th-century turreted castle, which is located on its own 124-hectare island roamed by deer...
You can cast a line from the timber deck of this wonderfully relaxing riverside B&B or just laze about on the adjacent lawn...
This hotel is a luxurious 68-room converted country estate that was once owned by the poet Oliver St John Gogarty (among his better lines: ‘If anyone thinks that I amn’t divine, He gets no free drinks when I’m making the wine’).
A Victorian schoolhouse dating from 1861, this beautiful building has been successfully converted into an exquisite boutique hotel that is (ahem) ahead of its class...
Muted and minimalist, this ubertrendy hotel has been a favourite of visiting celebs for quite a few years, who seemingly find comfort in the Zen-like furnishings and earth-tone colour palette created by top Irish designer John Rocha...
This stolid veteran has 30 comfortable and recently redone rooms next to the river and old railway bridge. The bar is a good retreat; rooms at the back have pastoral views.
This modern 113-room hotel is tailored to business travellers and weddings. The design is bog standard but the rooms are spacious and spotless, with high-speed internet, and there are two swimming pools.
If you were hoping to find TV sets cascading from windows, groupie-clad tour buses or any other evidence of the Clarence's rock-star associations, you'll be sorely disappointed, as Bono and Edge's discreet little bolthole is anything but that – alth...
Kudos to the Conrad: Dublin's first truly international business hotel has worked hard to keep up with the ever-growing needs of its primary clientele, folks in suits...
The 19th-century Cabra Castle is now a deluxe hotel decked out in plush period furnishings. The hotel is 3km out of Kingscourt on the Carrickmacross road.
Housed in an old farm-feed wholesale warehouse, this hotel offers 84 guest rooms and a sumptuous lobby stuffed with embroidered armchairs...
This glitzy glass-and-steel structure, constructed in 2005, is swank enough to make visiting rock stars swoon, with a health club, a soaring six-storey atrium, sleek retro-futuristic lobby with fuchsia pink modular lounges, a snazzy bar and a very s...
With its bars, restaurants and hi-tech spa, Whites is a contemporary colossus. The 157 rooms are all metal right-angles, tech touches and glass. Many have views gazing across the estuary to Curracloe Beach. Service is polished.
Just around the corner from the main entrance to Trinity College, this popular three-star option is a favourite with those looking for comfort and convenience rather than class and style...
This functionally modern hotel with big bedrooms and plenty of earth tones to soften the contemporary edges is your best bet in this part of town. We love the floor-to-ceiling windows: great for checking out what's going on below in the square.
The sprawling, silvery-grey Clanree is just as you come off the main roundabout from Derry or Sligo...
Across the road from the tourist office, the landmark, lemon- yellow Lawlor's was praised by William Makepeace Thackeray in 1843 as a 'very neat and comfortable inn'...
At the time of research, Kinnitty Castle, one of Ireland’s most renowned mansions, set on a vast estate, was embroiled in a bitter feud with its bankers...
La Stampa is an atmospheric boutique hotel on trendy Dawson St with 29 Asian-influenced white rooms with oriental rattan furniture and exotic velvet throws...
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