Louise O'Neill becomes a tourist for a day...in her own town

Most people can reel off the top tourist spots in their home place, but never visit them. So the Clarion Hotel’s writer-in-residence, Louise O’Neill, went on a day-long trip around Cork City

One doesn’t need to be a science buff to enjoy it [Blackrock Castle Observatory], but it was perhaps my favourite attraction of the day

I remember my first day in Dublin. I was a student of English and history at Trinity College Dublin. I got off the bus at Stephen’s Green and it took me two hours to find the Trinity campus. I feigned a French accent, pretended to be a tourist, and asked for directions. (Bonjour Madame. Ou est le university?).