IRELAND IS A spectacular country. And there are certain sights that everybody – but everybody – deserves to see once in their lives.
1. From the cliffs at Dun Aengus to the wide Atlantic horizon
2. Across Clew Bay from Croagh Patrick on a clear day
3. Dublin’s Poolbeg towers at dusk, after walking along to the lighthouse
4. The sun spreading over the Blue Stack mountains in Donegal in the morning
5. Across Cork city from Patrick’s Hill
6. Spring’s wild flowers in the moonscape cracks of the Burren
7. Across the bar from a stool at the Long Hall on a quiet evening
8. Croke Park, packed out in colours for an All-Ireland final
9. The Sleeping Giant, from Slea Head at sunset
10. Stacks of turf under the hills of Connemara
11. Along a busy Quay Street on a sunny Galway morning
12. Snow lying on the sweeping mountains of Wicklow
13. The panorama across 18 counties from Loughcrew on a clear day
14. The ceiling of stars over Kerry on a clear night
15. The bright green of the Glen of Aherlow under blue skies
16. And this door, seen from the inside
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