Spa review: What is it like to get a massage now in a spa hotel?

A new range of products that are made in Cork have inspired a special collection of treatments at Fota Island Spa and it's the perfect excuse for a post-lockdown return to the massage table

Fota Island Spa is welcoming guests once more for a range of treatments, including its new Grounding Rituals

If you’re like me, you’ve been hunched over a desk in some corner of your home putting in a full workday five days a week and wondering why your back is sore.

Well, I don’t wonder. I’ve always been prone to tensing my shoulders when I’m stressed and a 15-month pandemic and multiple lockdowns is considered fairly stressful. When an invitation to Fota Island Spa crossed my desk to try out one of their new range of Ground Ritual treatments, I snapped up the opportunity gladly.