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Burren Ireland’s spectacular karst landscape If you dream of traveling to Ireland, you will have landscapes like the Burren in mind. In County Clare in western Ireland, around 250 square kilometers, there is a green karst landscape that has formed the Burren National Park since 1991. The area is approximately an hour’s drive from Galway.… Read More »

Yearbook 2012 Ireland. The issue of the EU’s so-called financial pact, which, among other things, means stricter budgetary rules for member states, dominated politics in the spring. As it was a constitutional amendment, the Irish government had to let voters vote in a referendum, which was held on May 31. Most of the major parties… Read More »