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It’s the warmest day of the year so far, a balmy February morning which shouts “Spring is here!” with its blue skies and ‘winter-is-behind-us’ tepid freshness, and we’re on a bus hurtling down the M7 to East Cork to witness a new chapter in the gin distilling history of this part of Ireland – the launch of Irish Distillers‘ new super premium gin, Method and Madness Gin at the Midleton Distillery. In 2015, Irish Distillers, based at the Midleton Distilleries, famed for its Jameson, Redbreast, Tullamore Dew, Powers and Spot Whiskeys, opened a micro distillery to play around with mash bills and distillation techniques

Imagine leaving one country and landing into another where you then: take a train to a third country, disembark, take a brisk walk through a new city straight to your hotel reception and jump into a big, comfortable, designer bed all in well under an hour? This is precisely what could await you if you stay at MJ’s Hotel in Malmö, because that’s exactly the route we took recently. We landed into Copenhagen Airport from Dublin at a very respectable time of about 2pm, fetched the Orestundtåg train to Malmö Centralstation and were putting the key into our room at MJ’s within the hour after a seamless arrival and check-in experience

Basilico Restaurant in Oranmore has been awarded Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for February 2019, selected by Georgina Campbell’s Ireland Guide and Bord Bia. The Just Ask Restaurant of the Month rewards eateries across Ireland that exhibit best practice in demonstrating transparency in the sourcing of the food on their menus

With the letters G and N in the moniker of Graham Norton’s superbly successful self-titled range of wines created in conjunction with Invivo & Co. , we were always secretly and excitedly expecting an additional ‘I’ in the mix