There’s fuck all opened in the North either AFAIK?
Proper pubs were to open Monday but that’s now cancelled due to concerns about Mexicans with poor hygiene coming up. Pubs can still serve pints without food if they have a beer garden, and then only serve it in the beer garden. Everything else open but with restrictions. Masks are required from Monday in shops too.
Just leaving that area tomorrow and heading to Kilmore quay for a week.
We had a splendid week around Dungarvan. It had been a long time since I stayed in the area but very impressive and not nearly as crowded as equivalent spots in Kerry.
We were based in Kinsalebeg / Upper Piltown so closer to Ardmore. I’d much prefer Ardmore beach to Clonea. Kayaking in Ardmore was fun. With the tide out during the day the beach is great for a puck around. Kids liked waveworld in Clonea. Greenway is excellent of course. There is a cruise up the noble Blackwater out of Youghal we did not get to do but is supposed to be excellent.
Very good restaurants in the area. 360 cookhouse was the pick of the places we went to and very family friendly. There is a garden centre in Kinsalebeg called Clarinbridge Garden Centre - this is a real gem if you can make it. Limited menu for breakfast and afternoon but really excellent and a beautiful setting on a clear day.
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There’s a thing on for the month where most places (some only mon-weds) are doing half price food if you sit in. Eat out to help out it’s called. I certainly did my part.
Bushmills festooned with unionist flags and it looked a grand posh little village aside from that.
A cunt of a place, a local town for local people.
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Also there is a decent food market in Ardmore on Sunday’s, down by the beach. Good variety of stalls, Mexican, Indian, cheesecake, to name a few. And an overly enthusiastic chap selling olives.
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Thanks mate, that’s some top class travel advice there, will you let me know if anything else comes to mind.
That’s surprising about the enthusiastic olive salesman, I knew one of them once and he was an awful cranky cunt
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When you go to Bushmills there’s Scottish flags and union jacks absolutely everywhere, like every day is 12th July. Then you go do the tour of the distillery and the first thing they do is put on a video of lads playing hurling in stony fields and a thatched cottage with peasants standing in front.
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Restaurant options near Castletroy. Tell me lads.
Drive to Cork
Finnegan’s
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Tuscany Bistro in Annacotty,
Lana is nice enough Thai food in Castletroy
Best is to go into the shopping centre, you’ve choice of Hook and Ladder and Bella Italia, both decent
Finnegans is OK as well but the worst of that lot
La Cucina in Milford, Tuscany in Newtown for Italian (never been to Bella Italia)
Coqbull in the shopping centre for fajitas and burgers and the likes (only been to the one in town, no idea what the one in Castletroy is like)
Copper & Spice in Annacotty for Indian.
You have Lana/Camille in the area as well.
And yes, of course, Finnegans.
He’s still a cranky cunt, although he intersperses it with hysterical commentary now
High End - The East Room in UL
Copper & Spice is a nice Indian in Annacotty
I had pub grub in a place called The Tap House (I think) and it was decent.
Copia Green underneath the travel lodge is actually supposed to be excellent, but I’ve never been.
But you have to weigh all that up against a guaranteed Nice Post award for a half and half Chicken Curry in Finnegans.
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Finnegan’s and a shopping centre. Seems like I’ve found the home of fine Limerick cuisine 
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