Mark C. O'Flaherty

Review: Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort & Spa, Barga

"Only in Italy would a mariachi version of “Hotel California” be considered apposite aural accompaniment for a sunlounger'

Print is dead, long live print

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

Civilian launches its first print edition - issue zero is out now

Review: Finnair’s new Business class – London (LHR) to Helsinki (HEL)

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"Finnair customers at Heathrow are sent to the No.1 Lounge, which is where passengers who don’t have lounge privileges go to pay £40 for all the bacon rolls they can eat, and feel like they’re living the dream"

Review: The Marker Hotel, Dublin

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"This is a hotel that started to date the second the heavy plastic wrapping was taken off all of its expensive CONTEMPORARY furniture"

Let them eat cake | Review: Gordon Ramsay au Trianon, Paris

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"I went to Gordon Ramsay’s house to photograph his dog for Tatler once. Even he couldn’t quite believe it was happening"

Beef rib and shamrocks

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"Growing up in the archetypal Irish family home in the 1970s, I despised most food that wasn’t from our favourite fish and chip shop"

The drugs don’t work | Review: Pharmacy 2, London

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"If the food is from 2016, and the décor is from the 1990s, the service is dialled in from the 1970s"

Why I love MONA

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

Is it the world’s most exciting contemporary art institution? Or is it just that all the others are so awful

The best gay bar in the whole wide world | Julius’, New York

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

This gay corner of Greenwich Village is the epitome of Old New York

Review: La Compagnie – London (LTN) to New Jersey (EWR)

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"Everything about Luton is contrived to insult the no-frills passenger and put them in their place. It wants to big itself up with putting 'London' in the name, fine: on its own terms, then, it’s a national disgrace"

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