Irish Times – Page 2 – Peter Geoghegan

Journalist, author, broadcaster

My Starring Role in the Mourne Supremacy

By peterPosted on 6th August 2009Posted in Irish Times, TravelTagged Mournes, Northern Ireland, The Irish Times

A piece on an exhilarating weekend in the Mournes, first published in The Irish Times: ‘I’VE BEEN CLIMBING since I was six,” says Ian, our amiable instructor at Tollymore Mountain Centre, as my girlfriend takes her first, tentative steps on the climbing wall. “My dad rented a climbing frame for my birthday, I loved it […]

Hotel Review, Fairmont in St Andrew's

By peterPosted on 6th August 2009Posted in Irish Times, Travel

Originally appeared in The Irish Times: I realised the Fairmont was upmarket long before we arrived. What gave it away was not the price of a room, the fancy website or the hotel’s five stars but the automated e-mail booking confirmation: alongside rail and car hire, its getting-there options included helicopter charters from Edinburgh and […]