Christine Loomis
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Irish president’s dog steals spotlight on live TV
The president of Ireland’s spunky Bernese mountain dog begged for attention during a television interview at the presidential residence in Dublin.
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In Ireland’s far north Ulster province, sweeping visual splendor is the norm across County Donegal’s nearly 2,000 square miles. It is a pastiche of lush fields, stone cottages, peaks and jagged sea cliffs. There are towns where Gaeilge (Gaelic) is still spoken and black-face, horned sheep roam like wooly blimps across the countryside.
Explore the County’s peaks and shores
Lovers of drive vacations need look no further than the Wild Atlantic Way, a coastal road that serpentines up Europe’s western edge for 1,500 miles, from County Cork through County Donegal to its northernmost point.
To drive any section of this coast is to be immersed in nature’s dramatic extremes. Slieve League, or Sliabh Liag in Irish, in southern County Donegal is among the highest marine cliffs in Europe and a Signature Discovery Point along the Way. It is accessed via a moderate uphill trek — possibly through fog or freezing rain, even in July — to striking panoramas of the coastline. As…
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