Breaking news: A very different kind of airline high jacking at Heathrow.
Lifestyle
A world turned upside down
With my recent luck, if I avoid COVID, I’ll get sunstroke instead.
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Airports
Shedding and selling some Writers’ Tears as green becomes the new black
What an outstanding showcase for Irish whiskey Aer Rianta International provides at The Loop (which may, just may, have been named after a Johnny Sexton-called backs move).
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Travel
Feeling iffy by the Liffey
Oh what great craic this travel life is, sitting isolated in a foreign hotel room shoving cotton buds up one’s nostrils.
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Airports
Celtic rays and Camouflaged peas
I didn’t mind the price but I did question the value. The peas were about as freshly minted as a 1930s coin, more the colour of army camouflage gear than the bright, fresh-picked green of the menu photo.
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Miscellaneous
Mounting a challenge at Mount Juliet
“It’s not how, it’s how many.” With that well-worn golf phrase and a wry smile did Paraguayan pro Fabrizio Zanotti try to temper my disaffection with another ropey golf shot at the Horizon Irish Open Pro Am at Mount Juliet, County Kilkenny on Wednesday. There I was a guest of Executive Vice Chairman and CEO
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Food
A chance encounter with a great airport food pioneer
When the definitive history of airport dining is written, the breakthrough influence of the original Caviar House Seafood Bar at Heathrow may be viewed as the seminal moment that food quality and consumer satisfaction first got a look in.
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Airports
In praise of Heathrow queues
Why should a wonderfully innovative product such as IQOS, which aims to convert cigarette smokers to a much safer alternative, have to be locked away in this dungeon?
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Travel
From doomsday to Bloomsday
Our Bloomsday story offered a welcome change in tone and voice from the travel headlines that seem to dominate the mainstream media here.
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Events
Recalling the past and looking to the future with Penfolds
This week we’re on location in Bordeaux, the heart of French wine country, with one of the great names in Australia wine. Australian wine, you say? In Bordeaux? Well yes. I had better explain, though full details will follow in several weeks once a news embargo is lifted. I’m here in the centre of Bordeaux,
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Travel
Pontardawe, centre of the travel retail universe
My immigration experience at Heathrow was ghastly. You could almost smell the COVID in the packed, putrid, largely maskless environment.
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Events
A very grand affair in Galgenen
Can something as logistically focused and technologically based as a global distribution centre be beautiful? In its own almost futuristic way, yes.
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Travel
Buzz flight year to the rescue
There is a buzz in the air and unlike my favourite character from Toy Story this buzz will not crash to earth.
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