This is fresh. New.

You’re about to discover places you’ve never heard of, old stays with new tricks, and meet dozens of people tweaking and transforming the ways in which we take short breaks.

A free bothy. A luxury karaoke lair in Killarney. Cottages owned by an island community, alpacas mowing lawns, a crannóg-like roundhouse by a river, a treehouse with a sunken hot tub. And that’s just the beginning.

Every year, the Fab 50 gets tougher to compile. This is a selection of stays we invest hundreds of hours into. We’ve travelled the length and breadth of the island, from Belfast to the Burren, Fanad Lighthouse to a guesthouse with views of the Fastnet. We visit and speak to owners and staff. It changes almost completely every year and, in an age of AI, remains curated by human experts who love to travel.

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