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  • Ireland
  • Conor Power
  • June 15, 2013, 01:00

Clare winner: the sun sets over Kilkee. Photograph: Alan Betson How Loop Head won the Best Place to Holiday title

This week Loop Head peninsula, in Co Clare, won the ‘Irish Times’ Best Place to Holiday in Ireland award. Why, and how, did it clinch the title?

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Winner of the Best Place to Holiday competition 2013

‘Tourism, for us, is an exciting business to be in’: Cillian Murphy, owner of Murphy Blacks and chairman of Loop Head Tourism. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times What the Best Place to Holiday in Ireland award means for Loop Head

‘We’re hoping that, nationally, a lot of people will be looking on the map and saying, “We didn’t know it was there, but now we’re going to go there” ’

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