Half island on Shannon

WANT to get away from the doom and gloom, but can’t afford a sun-kissed Caribbean island retreat? Try Canon Island, in the Shannon Estuary.

About the only thing missing from this island retreat is tax-free status, but you have 112 acres of your own with self-sufficiency and fishing to play around withYou might just escape the increasingly draconian tax nets snaring mainland Ireland.

Canon Island is a mile off the Co Clare mainland, about four miles west of Shannon airport’s runways.