Jura

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As late as 2007, it was still being built, new, in China and Nigeria.
Driving the Peugeot 504 – a perfect car for troubled times

It was a time of trouble and strife, a time of mass public protests. A time of wars being fought in far away places, with people about whom we knew li(...)

Valentine’s Day comes with a pretty hefty price tag for most Irish couples
Pricewatch: Love is in the air – and it costs about €500

That time is upon us again: the day when everyone is supposed to be in love and told by the media and the markets of the world to express their love b(...)

Dijon, France
Off-the-beaten-track wonders in north-eastern France

The last time I set foot in Burgundy-Franche-Comté my mother had just passed away. I boarded a flight from Dublin to Paris, where I would connect by (...)

The Morrison Hotel on Dublin’s Ormond Quay.
Get festive with a break in Dublin or Geneva
  • Travel
  • November 24, 2018, 06:00

Quay-side cool  The Morrison Hotel on Dublin’s Ormond Quay has refreshed its Quay 14 bar and Morrison Grill restaurant. The quarter of a million(...)

Team Sky rider Chris Froome: “My hunger to win hasn’t got any less but the challenge is bigger this year because the level of my rivals is higher.” Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/Reuters
Tour de France 2017: The main contenders

He was the dominant winner in 2013, 2015 and 2016 but, this time around, Chris Froome starts the Tour de France knowing things could be more difficult(...)

Ploughing champion Eamonn Tracey on the last day of the 2015 National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co Laois. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
National Ploughing Championships grind to halt

The National Ploughing Championships has morphed into something so huge that it would be easy to forget its origins. Many of the visitors who arrive (...)

Location Dartry: Luxury new homes from €2m

The launch of the first of five houses in the new Manorglen Properties development in Dartry is bound to attract good interest. Not least because of i(...)

Gordon Ramsay’s newest addition to the dining landscape Heddon Street Kitchen opened on November 8th in Mayfair
Traveldesk: Montreal city guide, new London restaurants, French wine fairs and cheaper hotel rooms
  • Travel
  • November 15, 2014, 01:00

New London openings London’s dining scene is welcoming a slew of new openings this winter. US TV chef Judy Joo opens her first European venture(...)

The Jura: Sean Rothery on the way to St Hippolyte. Taken from A Long Walk South, An Irishman’s Trek on the GR5
From the North Sea to the Med: a 66-year-old Irishman’s long walk south
  • Books
  • May 8, 2014, 01:00

I retired from a long academic career when I was 65. I had no choice, but the view back then and possibly still is that retirement is a good thing,(...)