Ruinair Clare

Still waiting for The New York Times to do a 36 Hours in Clare layover review. This place has it all — stunning views, twee tourist attractions and weird and wonderful festivals aplenty.

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What you might see

☘Cruising around Shannon towna purpose-built airport town with 1960s bones
☘Craggy Island and surroundsthe countryside behind the sitcom parochial house
☘Street art in Ennismurals tucked down the medieval laneways
☘St Brigid's Well grottoa holy well crowded with photos and mementoes
☘A flight simulatortake the controls without leaving the ground
☘A loopy light housea lighthouse with an unusually eccentric history
☘A matchmaking museumsouvenir of Ireland's long-running matchmaking festival
☘Steven Spielberg's favourite caféa small coastal spot with a famous regular
☘A road that floods to ordera tidal causeway passable only between tides
☘A cliff-top telegraph stationwhere transatlantic messages first came ashore