Wild Nephin National Park from Westport: Ireland's bog wilderness

There are forty-five minutes between Westport's coffee shops and one of the most genuinely remote places in Ireland, and most visitors who pass…

Old Head Beach, Louisburgh: the day trip from Westport most visitors skip

Westport gets the tourist, and fair enough, it's earned it. But twenty-five kilometres south-west, past Louisburgh and out to the western arm of Clew…

Where to eat and drink in Westport, County Mayo

Westport has the food scene of a place twice its size, and it doesn't make a big deal about it. A Michelin Bib Gourmand twelve kilometres down the…

Grace O'Malley, the Pirate Queen of Clew Bay

She was fifty-six years old when she sailed from Connacht to Greenwich to negotiate face to face with Queen Elizabeth I. Neither spoke the other's…

Westport, Mayo's prettiest small town

Westport regularly tops national polls for prettiest town in Ireland and it earns it. The 18th century planners who laid the place out, including the…