Travel: Live it up  in Laois now it's open again

The midlands county reopened this week following a two-week lockdown and it's worth stopping off the motorway to sample what it has to offer

The remarkable Rock of Dunamase is as little as two minutes off the Cork to Dublin motorway as part of Ireland's Ancient East in Co Laois.

Welcome back, Laois. This week, following its two-week lockdown with neighbouring Offaly and Kildare, the Midlands county reopened its doors to the tourism industry — once again. 

Traditionally unheralded as a destination for Irish travellers, County Laois is perhaps most synonymous as the host of Electric Picnic, the National Ploughing Championships and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Irish honeymoon.