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Most American golf trips to Ireland move hotel every two nights. Basing sixteen of you in one house fifteen minutes from Royal County Down works out better, and cheaper.

Spending charitable funds on a residential away day feels indefensible until you cost the alternative. How to run one you can defend, from £44 per person midweek.

Some milestone birthdays don't suit a party. Sixteen people who matter, in one place, for two nights, from £56 each at weekends.

Fourteen people, fourteen budgets, and a bride or groom who said nothing mad. Why one house in the Mournes beats a block of hotel rooms, at £56 each.

Most corporate away days fail for the same reason. Nine ideas that work when your team has a whole country house to itself, from £44 per person midweek.

Newcastle punches above its weight for food. Six places we send guests to, plus the case for eating in when there are sixteen of you.

Tollymore Forest Park sits at the foot of the Mournes: 1,600 acres of woodland, waterfalls and river walks, twenty minutes from The Brambles.

Tollymore Forest is where Game of Thrones began. The filming locations, the Studio Tour at Banbridge, and what else is within an hour.

The Mourne Mountains, located in County Down, are among the most picturesque landscapes in Ireland.

With the Mourne Mountains as your backdrop there are trails for every level, from a gentle riverside walk to the full 22-mile Mourne Wall.

In September 2024 the Irish Open returned to Royal County Down for the first time in nine years. Rasmus Højgaard denied Rory McIlroy on the final green.

One of the finest links courses in the world sits fifteen minutes from our door. What the layout demands, who shaped it, and what to sort before you travel.