Ireland’s only child-free coffee shop is brewing up a storm

Ireland’s only child-free coffee shop is brewing up a storm, writes Nuala Woulfe

It’s a weekday morning and I’m feeling a bit like the child-hating queen in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang off to meet the Ratcatcher as I find myself in Ireland’s first adult-only coffee shop, in Birdhill, Tipperary, but within minutes, the guilt –okay I feigned it – disappears. With the easy listening music, the huge windows looking out onto stunning Mount Moylussa and Lower Lough Derg and the barristas making my coffee in front of my eyes - I’m beginning to understand child-free heaven.