Crosshaven House a holiday destination unlike anything in Ireland today

With its private cinema and ‘posh dorms’ it’s no wonder the newly re-opened Crosshaven House is topping travel editors’ must-see lists, writes Vickie Maye

NOEL CORCORAN had been working as a quantity surveyor, moving to oil rigs all over world, living out of suitcase. And then, after 15 years, enough was enough, it was time to come home, settle down.

He had a plan. After years of camping in his youth, and then more than a decade of living in hotel rooms the world over, the jigsaw clicked into place. He would create an eco hostel.