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FAMOUS broadcaster, social media personality and former Miss Universe Ireland took a tour of Clare and recommended her favourite things to do, see, eat and stay. 

Rozanna ‘Roz’ Purcell recently toured the county, taking on Lahinch, Doolin, Ennistymon and Corofin. The outdoor enthusiast posted on Instagram her suggestions, which included cafés, walking trails and even glamping.

Best known for her modelling career, Roz sports over 550,000 Instagram followers. She is known nowadays for her hiking excursions and colourful adventure accounts online. 

Having taken a ‘staycation’ in the Banner county, the bestselling cookery author and entrepreneur posted a series of pictures from her time in Clare. 

She recommended the Castle Darcy…

There was a cauldron of emotions as complex as one of Sinead O’Connor’s albums in the Irish town she called home for 15 years when well wishers gathered to say a final farewell to the singer.

The seaside town of Bray gave O’Connor a relatively quiet life for 15 years in an understated house on the main street overlooking the Irish Sea.

The house, Montebello, has become a place of pilgrimage for O’Connor’s fans since news of her death last month, with crowds arriving daily to lay flowers and reflect on her life and music.

A simple pink chair sits outside the pink-framed conservatory, with pink flowers, candles and a photo of the singer, as well as a host of floral tributes.

As a private funeral service took place on Tuesday morning, the crowd of…