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Lucy Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
In sparkling form this month, Lucy Madden asserts that "for anyone young, and naturally sociable, there can be few more promising career paths to take than in hospitality".
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Lucy Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
This month Lucy Madden considers the rampant rise of Airbnb - and the merits of spending precious time and money with people who know what they are doing, i.e. the hospitality professionals
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Lucy Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
This month Lucy Madden considers with a mixture of sadness and wry amusement some of the consequences that follow high jinks and disrespect for historic properties and antiques - and urges culrpits to ‘Fess up’ or be remembered with contempt.
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Lucy & Johnny Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
Lucy Madden begins the new year by sharing a guilty secret - and it is one that will be familiar to many... My sister and I for years have shared a guilty secret; it may be hard to believe but we hate (and I choose the word carefully) going to parties. Unfortunately friends refuse to believe this strange quirk, (“You’ll love it when you get there/here”) so the occasional invitation still arrives to be greeted by cries of ‘Oh no.
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Lucy & Johnny Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
Ending the year on an optimistic note, Lucy Madden finds encouragement in the observation that a more relaxed approach in restaurants and hotels does not have to mean a lessening of standards, more a shift in emphasis
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Insider View on the Trials & Tribulations of Travel


Lucy & Johnny Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
This month, Lucy Madden wonders why does the airport experience have to be so unpleasant ? But the trains are no better - and as for the experiences of overseas visitors over-70s wishing to hire a car…
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Insider View on Demanding Guests


Lucy & Johnny Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
This month, Lucy Madden describes some of the increasingly unreasonable behaviour of demanding guests - observing that ‘the accumulation of wealth and power seems to go hand in hand with rudeness and often, inexplicably, meanness’.
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Insider View on Calorie Counted Menus


Ken Buggy Chef
Author: Lucy Madden
This month, Lucy Madden speaks for us all - on the dread topic of calorie-counted menus - and has some sensible tips on meaningful menus too. (Ken Buggy’s quirky drawing shown here, has been pinned up in the Guide’s office for many years by the way…)
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Insider View on Northern Ireland


Lucy & Johnny Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
This month Lucy Madden says it will be a sad day when Mother Nature is not enough, and a place must be theme-parked to attract visitors. A perfect day. They so rarely occur, but imagine sitting under a cloudless sky, sharing a picnic with loved ones, perched on a hillside and watching the little fishing boats as they chug around Strangford Lough and the lazy trawl of the ferry as it makes its way, to and fro
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Insider View - Is Irish Food Really Getting Better?


Lucy & Johnny Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
This month Lucy Madden questions whether Irish food is really getting better - saying that, in rural Ireland, a good meal at a reasonable price is hard to find. It was a recycled wine bottle filled with a brownish liquid lurking on the table that alerted us to the fact that all was not well. We were a party of 8, meeting for lunch in a restaurant in the Midlands and, having pre-booked, arrived at the venue to see that we were the only customers there.
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