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IRELAND’S ATTITUDE to one of its most iconic megalithic monuments has inspired a US artist to create a “bouncy castle” version which is on exhibition in the west from today.

The “Poulnabrone bouncy dolmen” is about twice the size of the actual pre-Christian stone tomb on the Burren. It will be inflated by artist Jim Ricks in Kylebrack woods, southeast of Loughrea, Co Galway, this evening.