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PHOTOS: Peek inside the most expensive Airbnb listings in Ireland

Fancy having a castle built in the 1480s all to yourself? It’ll cost you…

AIRBNB IS GROWING in popularity and lots of Irish people are using it to find affordable accommodation or just something a little unusual abroad.

There are some unbelievable properties all across the globe that you can stay in – some look like they’ve featured on Cribs. And not all of these lavish gaffs are outside of the Emerald Isle.

Here are some of the most expensive Irish listing on Airbnb…

The Park Hall at Ross Castle, Galway

You can stay here for €800 a night and it can sleep 16 guests.

An 1840s seaside property in Castletown-Bearhaven, Cork

For €801 a night, you can have it all to yourself…

A luxury hostel in Kilfinnane, Limerick

Though the pictures don’t show it, the host says this place has a barbecue area and a sauna. It also sleeps 41 people and you can rent it for €900 a night.

‘Glamorous Country House’ in Carlow

For €916 a night, this six-bedroom country home could be yours…

A country castle in Durhamstown, Meath

This Norman Castle is on offer for a whopping €1,250 a night.

Ballaghamore Castle in Laois

It’ll cost you €1,500 a night to stay at this castle, built in 1480.

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:16 AM

    The Journal allowing comments on Politics in the UK but only allow comments on Irish Politics when the Government are looking to send a message or for feedback.
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    May 3rd 2024, 8:38 AM

    @martin lawlor: Comments are open on ‘Taoiseach to meet Stormont executive …’.

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:57 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: Wow!

    A whole 1.

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    May 3rd 2024, 9:05 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: And you’re point being???
    The article has no relevance, as a matter of fact it’s published like many other’s to publicise Simon Harris a Leader.
    More PR ,the irony of it all.

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    May 3rd 2024, 9:07 AM

    @martin lawlor: There is no onus on The Journal to allow (or disallow!) comments on any particular article, and we don’t have a ‘right’ to post comments either.

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    May 3rd 2024, 9:12 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: If there is no onus on them to do so, why do they do it?

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    May 3rd 2024, 9:17 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Some people think that media outlets have a responsibility to publish their dubious wisdom.

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    May 3rd 2024, 9:18 AM

    @Nick Vasilakis: No idea! Reading some of the comments it is obvious that it would be better if they just removed the facility entirely.

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    May 3rd 2024, 10:12 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: The Journal only exists because of its readership.

    Do you really think that readership – its customers – don’t have any right to complain?
    To suggest improvements?
    Improvements that would make The Journal better for them, the customers and the only ones keeping The Journal in business?

    Customer service isn’t your forte, is it Sean?

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    May 3rd 2024, 11:21 AM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: That’s what Email is for.

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    May 3rd 2024, 11:28 AM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: So, write to them. Email them. Ring them. Of course you have have a right to complain. But that is NOT the same as commenting in public.

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    May 3rd 2024, 4:41 PM

    @martin lawlor: How do you mean the article has no relevance? It relates to Harris’s trip to Belfast to meet with politicians from the executive – you know, a news article that let’s us know what our Taoiseach is up to today.

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:55 AM

    Maria Bailey could have told the Tories that swings are dangerous!

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:37 AM

    There are reports that Boris Johnson arrived to vote without voter ID. If true, then he again doesn’t know a law he himself passed as PM….and further evidence that he’s largely incapable of everyday adult functioning.

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:20 AM

    Best of luck to Brian Dobson on his retirement from Rte.A sound auld skin.

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:58 AM

    Playing tough with asylum does not win votes because people have made up their minds years before that there is a problem with illegal migration.

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:43 AM

    The Conservatives in the UK have gone the way of Republicans in the US. 30/40 years ago, while you may not have agreed with their policies you could understand the rational behind them, debate them and agree to disagree. Now, however,…………..? I never thought I would see the day when I would consider Ronald Reagan a reasonable moderate. Come back Maggie Thatcher, all is forgiven (though that might still be a step too far!).

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    May 3rd 2024, 9:25 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Mags is literally the reason for the mess.

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:11 AM

    Being Prime Minister over there seems to be a poisoned chalice. Either that or they’re all thick.

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:39 AM

    @David O Brien: I would rather have a government full of dunces here that can run the country 100% than have dunces in Europe telling us what to do.

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    May 3rd 2024, 10:13 AM

    @Fintan Pox: Thanks poxy

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    May 3rd 2024, 1:27 PM

    @Fintan Pox: you asked for that Pox.

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:49 AM

    Brenda’s C5, must be nice to avoid having to learn, think, try to understand as best we can & instead just parrot obviously deeply flawed slogans. How are the EU eejits?

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    May 3rd 2024, 11:56 AM

    Never mind I’m sure he’ll have a new career. He could become a professional snooker player, he sure snookered Minister McEntee!

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    May 3rd 2024, 2:02 PM

    Vote Fianna fFail.Your haveing a laugh right.Your some bell.Pox

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    May 3rd 2024, 9:38 AM

    couldn’t be more happy for him.

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    May 3rd 2024, 2:04 PM

    And we slowly flop to the other side of the coin, will it be different? no.

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    May 3rd 2024, 8:18 PM

    Politicians are all painted with the same brush through the world.
    All talk and promises before an election and nothing after their in power.
    If they promise and can’t deliver they should be sacked after 18 months and not have to wait for a full 5 year term

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    May 4th 2024, 6:47 PM

    Good stuff they need manners put on them. It’s a pity the journal is more than happy to deny comment on most comments about our own Tories, Ireland has had Tories in government for a hundred years. Buckled infrastructure. A shanty town on the canal.
    Elsewhere, unacceptable that anti British Khan has been re elected as Mayor of London. He openly appeases people who commit violence in London

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    May 4th 2024, 1:16 AM

    Fewer conservatives in government is always a good thing, anywhere. Conservatism is an illness.

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