Restaurant review: Where better to sit and ponder than the Coffee Shop in Union Hall, West Cork

Joe McNamee visits the Coffee Shop in Union Hall, West Cork, this week and leaves smiling and satisfied.
Restaurant review: Where better to sit and ponder than the Coffee Shop in Union Hall, West Cork
Sat, 26 Nov, 2016 - 00:00

I’ve always been intrigued by Union Hall. In another lifetime, I regularly stayed in the now defunct Maria’s Schoolhouse B&B run by Maria Hoare and husband Jim Kennedy.

I participated in Jim’s Atlantic Sea Kayaking expeditions, camping overnight on Rabbit Island, making midnight flits across Glandore Bay, our paddles, wands, conjuring up glowing phosphorescence.

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