Taking a holiday - right on your doorstep

It took lockdown and Covid-19 for award-winning travel writer Conor Power to appreciate the beauty right outside his door

The view from Mount Corrin

As a travel writer, I’m used to notion of going abroad to travel – just as a huge amount of us have become accustomed to doing over the last couple of decades. It’s only natural; after all, we love to get out and explore the wide world and cheap airline tickets make it all so accessible. So off we go, in search of adventure, culture and better weather.

But one of the main reasons we love to travel abroad is that we always feel that we already “know” Ireland. We feel that we know our country inside out; that, apart from certain exceptions (I have never been to Newgrange, for example), we pretty much know Ireland very well indeed.