A treasure trail of five feelgood independent Irish shops

Emily Connell and her dog outside her Ballinspittle shop Chalk and Easel.
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SUBSCRIBEWhen my husband and I visited Rome this summer, I wandered about the backstreet shops while he queued for the colosseum.
The colosseum has already been discovered by millions of people, and studied in classrooms around the globe, along with a whole lot of other histories about men and their conquests.
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