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Galway: A Hundred Thousand Welcomes

Posted by Annie Fitzsimmons in Urban Insider on January 31, 2013
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Outside the Tigh Neachtain on Cross Street in Galway. (Photograph by Tamara Polajnar, Flickr)

Céad míle fáilte, Ireland’s oft-repeated blessing, means “a hundred thousand welcomes.” That promise of hospitality has rung true wherever I’ve traveled in the Emerald Isle, but I’ve never felt more welcome than I did in Galway. And nothing embodies that spirit quite like Frank Maher of the Petra House Bed & Breakfast. Here are a few of Frank’s favorite things about his hometown.