The hotel has now been refurbished and re-opened. The bedrooms still have the old character, which runns throughout the whole hotel. The bar had Irish trad sessions on during our stay with the food being of a high standard. This is not a modern hotel by any stratch of the imagination, but is a quaint old hotel with a certain... more

For many years now, the Fiat Sea Angling Club in Dublin, Ireland, has been organising two weekend trips a year for club members and their families/guests. In the summer, we pick a venue where we can charter boats for deep sea angling, and, in October, we choose a venue for shore angling. By now most of the club members have... more

The Dev seems to be the Irish equivalent of the "Rising Damp" dosshouse of British TV fame, though without the colourful characters. The hotel is decrepid, decayed, neglected, and in sore need of one of two things - a total renovation or a wrecking ball. The rooms are outdated and damp; the bathrooms are smaller than anything I've ever seen;... more