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Shops on Dublin's Grafton Street were forced to close by the pandemic. Photo: Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Gabrielle Monaghan
The west Clare heritage town of Kilrush is brimming with potential. Frances Street – Ireland’s second-widest street after O’Connell Street in Dublin – is lined with three-storey 19th-century merchant houses. During the summer, the 120-berth marina has an inflatable aqua park for kids and a boat service running to the monastic settlement on nearby Scattery Island.
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