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Niche Travel

WHEN YOU STAY in a hotel, the view matters. It’s why they charge more for a good one

Sat Feb 25 2012 - 00:00

Niche Travel

IT’S NOT THAT I don’t like people, I just don’t much like them around.

Sat Feb 18 2012 - 00:00

Niche travel

You might think February is a quiet time in Kerry, but you’d be wrong

Sat Feb 11 2012 - 00:00

Go Niche

This time last year we got dwarf hamsters. Two cute little fellas the kids fell in love with instantly

Sat Feb 04 2012 - 00:00

Love haunts

IT’S HARD TO believe but Valentine’s Day is almost upon us again, the day when, tradition has it, the birds get together to choose…

Sat Jan 28 2012 - 00:00

Niche travel

HOW IRONIC TO find that one of the sponsors of New York Tenement Museum, specifically of an exhibition entitled An Irish Family…

Sat Jan 28 2012 - 00:00

Niche travel

YOU KNOW an idea has moved from the realm of sci-fi and fantasy to grim reality when the suits move in, as they just have in …

Sat Jan 14 2012 - 00:00

Go Niche

THERE CAN’T BE a person in the country who doesn’t know the location of at least one fairy fort, the mysterious circular landmarks…

Sat Jan 07 2012 - 00:00

Niche travel

ANOTHER NEW YEAR, another raft of New Year’s resolutions. Smoke more, drink more, eat more, all the usual

Sat Dec 31 2011 - 00:00

Niche travel

YOU’LL HAVE HEARD of New York’s MoMA but what about Boston’s MoBA? It might not be so famous but it’s way more fun

Sat Dec 17 2011 - 00:00

Medical tourism

GO NICHE: How far would you be prepared to go for healthcare? I mean, actually go. Quite a distance, it would seem

Sat Dec 10 2011 - 00:00

My Day

Yvonne Muldoon - Sales manager, United Airlines

Sat Dec 03 2011 - 00:00

Go Niche

AMSTERDAM is awash with picturesque spots, but one of the prettiest – and certainly the most serene – is tucked away behind a…

Sat Nov 26 2011 - 00:00

Go Niche

IN THIS PART of the world we talk a lot about the struggle a business faces getting past the third generation

Sat Nov 19 2011 - 00:00

The centre's winter season runs from Janu

GO NICHE: WANT TO feel like an Olympian? Well, you can, thanks to Lee Valley White Water Centre in Hertfordshire

Sat Nov 12 2011 - 00:00

Stay at home for Christmas markets

LIKE MUHAMMAD and the mountain, if you can’t afford to jet off to a Continental Christmas market this year you can take heart…

Sat Nov 05 2011 - 00:00

Go Niche

DARK TOURISM has been called the travel industry’s dirty little secret.

Sat Nov 05 2011 - 00:00

Go Niche

A trip to the light fantastic : NOBODY BELIEVES me when I say it but I saw the Aurora Borealis from my front door in Wicklow…

Sat Oct 29 2011 - 01:00

My Day

Colm Quinlan - founder of Dublin Literary Pub Crawl

Sat Oct 22 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

A CROSSING on Cunard’s luxury Queen Mary II, the largest ocean liner ever built, might be a little beyond your financial reach…

Sat Oct 22 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

NO TRIP TO Rome would be complete without a visit to St Peter’s Basilica

Sat Oct 15 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

IF YOU happen to be down around Westmoreland Street, or indeed Sandyford Business Park, on a Friday evening, don't be surprised…

Sat Oct 08 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

AS NOVELTIES go, aeroplanes that have been turned into hotels are not all that novel.

Sat Oct 01 2011 - 01:00

My Day

Kevin Mahon, Chairman of Kilkenny Tourism

Sat Sept 24 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

AS IF THE Amazon weren’t fascinating enough, news that scientists have discovered a second river 4km underneath it is incredible…

Sat Sept 17 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

IN TIMES OF recession, when we all have to be prepared to carry one another, it’s great to know that some couples take their …

Sat Sept 10 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

IF YOU FANCY a dirty weekend, you’re in luck

Sat Sept 03 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

YOU CAN’T BEAT the Dutch for sheer quirkiness. Just take Scheveningen in The Hague

Sat Aug 20 2011 - 01:00

Go niche

TURNS OUT it’s not just something you hear about in movies

Sat Aug 13 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

HERE’S ANOTHER thing to add to the travel wish-list: the Cancun underwater museum project, MUSA, a series of 400 life-sized statues…

Sat Aug 06 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

Ask anyone who works in tourism or travel in Ireland and they’ll tell you they’ve been asked, at least once, “Where can I go …

Sat Jul 30 2011 - 01:00

My Day

Barbara Whelan - Manager Avis at Dublin Airport

Sat Jul 30 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

Unless you’re a petrol head, most cars you can probably take or leave

Sat Jul 23 2011 - 01:00

My day

Alexis Bernstorff - manager of the Ros tapestry exhibition, New Ross

Sat Jul 23 2011 - 01:00

Go niche

FANCY BRINGING out your inner Éamon de Buitléar? Anyone raised on his wonderful Amuigh Faoin Spéir programmes (time for some …

Sat Jul 16 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

ANYONE LOOKING to immerse themselves in art while on a citybreak should check out Propeller-Island City Lodge in (where else?) …

Sat Jul 09 2011 - 01:00

What lies beneath the rock?

GO NICHE: STRAIGHT OUT of the pages of a children’s story book, the magical “fairy chimneys” that dot the landscape of Cappadocia…

Sat Jul 02 2011 - 01:00

B&B in a Trojan horse

NICHE: IF MOVIE director Tim Burton ran a B&B, chances are it would look like this.

Sat Jun 25 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

Sweet pipe dreams: HERE’S ONE you might have difficulty selling for a citybreak

Sat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

SHORT NOTICE, I know, but if you’re down Connemara way this evening, or at a loose end anywhere else in the country and prepared…

Sat Jun 11 2011 - 01:00

Coming home to west Cork, from all over the world

Expats, English people, artists, even second homeowners are keeping west Cork afloat in the recession – but prices have come …

Thu Jun 09 2011 - 01:00

Teeing off on a golfing cruise

GO NICHE: TORN BETWEEN a golf holiday and a cruise? Why not do both.

Sat Jun 04 2011 - 01:00

Choc full of sweet dreams

Go Niche: DISNEYLAND is all very well, but what’s it missing? That’s right, chocolate

Sat May 28 2011 - 01:00

A nose for a good story

GO NICHE : ANYONE WITH any sort of nose for a mystery, or who is simply nosey, will have wondered why so many statues from the…

Sat May 21 2011 - 01:00

My Day

Siobhan O'Sullivan , director of sales and marketing at Fitzwilliam Hotel, Belfast in conversation with SANDRA O'CONNELL

Sat May 21 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

IF YOU’VE got designs on a trip up to Dublin this summer, make the effort to get there in June.

Sat May 14 2011 - 01:00

Go Niche

IF THE GOOD weather keeps up – and apologies if I’ve just hexed it – there’s going to be no better summer to get up close and…

Sat May 07 2011 - 01:00

Go niche

By SANDRA O'CONNELL

Sat Apr 30 2011 - 01:00

My day

NOELEEN TYRRELL - Ard Nahoo retreat, Co. Leitrim

Sat Apr 30 2011 - 01:00

Go niche

WHAT WOULD humankind be without its devotion to rituals? Over the years, Go Niche has stumbled upon all sorts of weird and wonderful…

Sat Apr 23 2011 - 01:00
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