THE Garden Room Restaurant in Killarney’s Malton Hotel is a magnificent setting even if it is a perfect example of the styles, ambitions and the gilded ostentation of another time.

Hikers have been warned to stay off the steepest snow-clad slopes of Ireland’s highest mountain after three climbers were saved in a dramatic rescue.

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SO Killarney didn’t prove the pushover everyone had expected.