Clodagh Finn: Holiday at home but please don’t call it a staycation

Clodagh Finn on the American phrase that brings her out in hives 

A family on top of the world at Malin Head, one of the destinations in the Fáilte Ireland 'Make a break for it' campaign

A staycation is all very well but the word simply fails to capture the Irish summer experience of walking down a sunny grassy back road still steaming after rain, and being reminded by a hedgerow fuchsia that vivid purple and red look amazing together.

We used to think the magnificent flowers looked like ostentatious drop earrings but, as Zoë Devlin so poetically puts it, they also look like ballerinas “with a crimson skirt, purple petticoat and long, long, slightly uneven legs”.