The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza | Emer McHugh | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/25/the-emblem-of-modern-ireland-not-fiddles-and-guinness-but-a-soulless-shopping-plaza
The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh
Giving back to the land: an off-grid eco-guesthouse in a ‘quietly radical corner’ of south-west Ireland | Travel | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/jun/26/off-grid-eco-guesthouse-radical-corner-south-west-ireland
A couple have combined their passion for sustainability with chic hospitality set a stone’s throw from West Cork’s art scene