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IRELAND

While this city on Ireland's west coast may not have the same green reputation as Belfast or Dublin, it is catching up fast. You can see it lean into the green in its historic landmarks and innovative businesses, and you can hear it when you talk to residents.

Sustainable Ireland: Here’s how Limerick is becoming green

March 13, 2025March 1, 2025 by Christopher Elliott

While this city on Ireland’s west coast may not have the same green reputation as Belfast or Dublin, it is catching up fast. You can see it lean into the green in its historic landmarks and innovative businesses, and you can hear it when you talk to residents.

Categories Destinations
The Shelbourne Dublin is on a mission to become a zero-waste hotel.  It's a lofty goal for any establishment, let alone a 200-year-old luxury hotel known as the Grand Dame of Dublin.

How Ireland’s Shelbourne Hotel is finding sustainability

February 27, 2025January 18, 2025 by Christopher Elliott

The Shelbourne Dublin is on a mission to become a zero-waste hotel.  It’s a lofty goal for any establishment, let alone a 200-year-old luxury hotel known as the Grand Dame of Dublin.

Categories Destinations
Sara Banks, founder of SteamLine Luggage.

How an Irish luxury luggage manufacturer became sustainable

June 25, 2025January 4, 2025 by Christopher Elliott

Everyone is talking about sustainability these days. Here’s how one Irish luxury luggage manufacturer is quietly doing it.

Categories Destinations
5 Places to visit in 2025

5 destinations you have to see in 2025

January 3, 2025December 29, 2024 by Christopher Elliott

I’ve spent most of this year traveling, starting in South America and trekking through Central America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East. But there are only five places I want to see again in 2025.

Categories Destinations, On Travel
The world's greenest destinations.

Here they are: The 5 greenest destinations of 2025

January 6, 2025December 21, 2024 by Christopher Elliott

Sustainability has become a marketing buzzword lately. But these five nations are the real deal: Here are the world’s greenest destinations.

Categories Destinations
Adrian Mooney, sales director of Kilkea Castle Estate & Golf Club, in front of Kilkea Castle.

How do you make an Irish castle sustainable? Like this.

June 10, 2025December 7, 2024 by Christopher Elliott

How do you make Kilkea Castle sustainable?  That’s the difficult question its owners had to answer when they renovated the old fortress and turned it into the Kilkea Castle Estate & Golf Club.

Categories Destinations
Gareth Mullins, executive chef at Anantara The Marker Dublin Hotel, shows guests how to make soda bread.

Anantara’s smokin’ Dublin food tour highlights Ireland’s green credentials

April 8, 2025November 23, 2024 by Christopher Elliott

If you want to know about sustainability in Ireland, you have to ask Gareth Mullins to take you on his Dublin food tour.

Categories Destinations
Doreen Murphy believes she walked right into when she rented a car from Budget in Northern Ireland recently.

“What should I have done in this situation?”

May 4, 2024June 4, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

The car rental insurance scam is a fairly well-known “gotcha” for international renters, and it’s a trap Doreen Murphy believes she walked right into when she rented a car from Budget in Northern Ireland recently.

Categories Should I Take The Case?
When Donna Larkin booked a room at the Hotel Ashbourne Marriott last year, she had no way of knowing it was about to change owners.

What does Marriott owe me for a reflagging nightmare?

January 23, 2024May 17, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

When Donna Larkin booked a room at the Hotel Ashbourne Marriott last year, she had no way of knowing it was about to change owners.

Categories Is This Enough Compensation?
Renting a car in Europe can take some getting used to for the average American visitor. The vehicles are smaller. Gas is more expensive.

Sounds like a scam: Budget Ireland bills me for a new clutch, but I only drove a few clicks

January 20, 2024August 6, 2011 by Christopher Elliott

Renting a car in Europe can take some getting used to for the average American visitor. The vehicles are smaller. Gas is more expensive. And most of the cars have manual transmissions.

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