Buzzing bistro
Squirreled away beneath the town’s Norman castle, it’s the kind of place with a nugget around every corner — poky bookshops, the Bastion gallery, a lock on the River Shannon, and even a bar (Seán’s) claiming to be the oldest in Ireland.
Every artsy quarter needs its buzzy eatery, of course, and since the mid-1990s that service has been provided by Annie McNamara and Mary McCullagh’s Left Bank Bistro.
