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Observing the Irish blogosphere since 2005
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Ireland is a country where food and hospitality are not just services, but stories. Behind every plate of seafood chowder, every slice of brown soda bread, every pint of Guinness poured in a creaking pub lies history, pride, and a sense of welcome.
On 30 September 2025, Dublin’s InterContinental Hotel hosted the Georgina Campbell Irish Food & Hospitality Awards, Ireland’s longest-running independent hospitality awards. Winners are chosen after year-round anonymous visits, making them not just polished showpieces, but places that deliver genuine excellence every day.
For tourists, these awards are the perfect map of where to eat and stay in Ireland in 2025. For locals, they shine a light on gems worth celebrating — from five-star castles to neighbourhood cafés, from fine dining experiments in Dublin to farmhouses in Connemara.
Here is your full guide to Ireland’s best restaurants, hotels, pubs, and producers for 2025 — and why you should visit them.
Ireland’s dating scene in 2025 is a study in contrasts: a country with a proud, analogue tradition of matchmaking and music-filled socials that also happens to be one of Europe’s most app-savvy markets.
When the Nomad Capitalist Passport Index 2025 was published, the usual hierarchy of global power shifted.
For the first time, Ireland took the number one spot — ahead of Switzerland, Greece, and Portugal — with a score of 109 out of 120.
It wasn’t only about visa-free access. Ireland’s rise reflected a broader truth: this small island has quietly built one of the world’s most balanced societies — combining economic freedom, political stability, and a culture of trust.
Something unexpected is happening across Ireland’s digital culture. On buses from Cork to Dublin, in shared houses in Rathmines, in offices from Galway to Limerick, and on TikTok feeds that move faster than the weather on the Atlantic coast, a quiet renaissance is unfolding. Irish gamers — particularly those between 25 and 40 — are returning to the games they played as children and teenagers. MapleStory, RuneScape, Habbo Hotel, old Pokémon cartridges, Nintendo DS titles, even PS1 and PS2 classics are reappearing as if Ireland collectively stepped back into the early 2000s.