Fab 50: The best places to stay in Ireland for 2025
From mirror houses to forest dens, five-star suites to garden getaways, the year’s essential accommodation hotlist has landed
Inside Ireland’s Fab 50: How we chose the best places to stay for 2025
Forget the usual suspects. The Fab 50 is the freshest list in Irish travel, an annual round-up of new and game-changing stays assembled over several months — and a selection that, each year, helps us to rethink how we book and enjoy our short breaks.
A whiskey hotel from which you can see Scotland. A brilliantly reimagined guesthouse in Ballydehob. A restored garda barracks with showers in its former cell in Ballyduff. A five-star overlooking the fourth fairway at Royal Portrush. From Dingle to Dublin, Killybegs to Killarney, there’s enough browsing and booking here to last you a year.
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