Restaurant review: The Wild Honey Inn, Co Clare

JUST as Muhammed Ali’s great physical beauty, charisma, intelligence and wit once helped to disguise a pitiless prize fighter determined to take the purse, the scale and magnificence of the Burren in Clare is so very breath-taking that sometimes you can’t see the wood from the trees.

Or more specifically the jewel-like wildflowers from the grey-flecked limestone that mantels the region in such a deeply mysterious way.

The Fabergé flora of the Burren has achieved what the peoples of Europe have struggled to do for millennia — they have found a way to share the same space. Very different plants usually found in very disparate areas grow side-by-side, an orchid complimenting a heather.