TWO Ennis businessmen have acquired the Fitzpatrick Bunratty Hotel for an estimated €12 million plus and plan to invest a further €10m to add 39 holiday homes to the complex.

MISSISSIPI meets the mud-flats of the Shannon Estuary. Even though it may be 90 years since independence, these Antebellum mansions at Cratloe in Co Clare, could almost be called post-Colonial.