How to plan your dream holiday on a shoestring budget

Shauna McHugh suggests some useful ideas for free activities — ideal for anyone planning a staycation break in Ireland on a tight budget!

While touring Ireland, why not visit a college campus like UCC, where you can enjoy the architecture and attend a free public lecture.

The idea that money can’t buy happiness may be a cliché, but it’s one that only grows in truth the older you get.

It’s also a truth that becomes more pertinent the more you travel — as you approach your third hour of standing in the blistering heat of extortionate Paris whilst waiting to enter the overpriced Louvre alongside the throngs of other mid-July tourists who had the same bright idea as you, for example, that old cliché tends to scream ‘told you so’!