Fantastically flanked by oodles of adorable, clownish puffins lining my path, I’d soon climb Skellig Michael’s perilous 618-step “stairway to heaven” to explore 1,400-year-old stone ...

It was dubbed “a stairway to heaven” by the local parish priest but when the 350 steps leading to the top of O’Rourke’s Table in Co Leitrim started to rot, locals seized the opportunity to ...

Travel: I climbed the ‘stairway to heaven’ next to a Star Wars film set in Ireland The weeklong 'Hiking & Island Hopping: Cork & Kerry' trek traverses stunning Emerald Isle landscapes ...

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The weeklong 'Hiking & Island Hopping: Cork & Kerry' trek traverses stunning Emerald Isle landscapes.

No blarney, the Force was with me. Or at least with Watson, a black Lab mix and crack dolphin spotter who, upon detecting dorsal fins, relentlessly barked while racing throughout our small fishing ...