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Cycling in Ireland | Jeremy Seal

Cyclists from Europe's and America's more bustling corners are delighted to discover an abiding truth behind that familiar giftshop postcard - of a flock of sheep blocking a road above the caption 'Traffic Jam in Ireland'

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Drinking in Dublin | Christopher Deliso | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Dublin

Sunset is an elusive moment in this dirty old town

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Family Holiday: Ireland | Dea Birkett

There are ruins punctuating the fields along the roadside - of abbeys, castles and old houses - so much more exciting for children to clamber over than a regular climbing frame in a boring old park

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Flirty Dancing | Nancy Lyon | Ireland, Clare & Limerick, Miltown Malbay

Let me spirit you away to Tir na n’Og, the mythical Gaelic Land of Youth where age and decay are strangers. In the Sliabh Luachra region of Ireland's East Kerry-West Cork border

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Outrageous Behaviour at Castle Leslie | Gillian Ivory

Now a private club, rule number four at Castle Leslie is the last on a short list and reads as follows: “What’s said or done inside our walls stays within our walls…but on the whole we welcome manners, etiquette and downright outrageous behaviour”

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Poppy Day in the North | Mark McCrum | United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Bellaghy

Times were tense, the band leading the march was alleged to have been involved in a controversial demonstration outside a nearby Catholic chapel, and nobody quite knew what was going to happen

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The Aran Islands | Jeremy Seal | Ireland, Galway, Mayo & Connemara, Galway

'What fine weather you've brought,' marvelled the old-timer. A friendly cliche anywhere else, but on the little ferry to Ireland's fabled Aran Islands his words sounded almost literal

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The Land of Heart's Desire | John Borthwick | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Dublin

Where else could you drive through a green-on-green landscape, looking for somewhere like Tubbercurry or Ballygally and end up instead in Ringaskiddy or Ballylickey – and not mind at all?

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The Sheep’s Head Way | Rob Penn | Ireland, Southwest (Kerry & Cork), Cork

We timed it perfectly, arriving atop Seefin, the highest point on the peninsula, just as the golden sun touched the sea.

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