Is this Ireland’s best hotel? Inside Ballyfin, a breathtaking Regency mansion with secret doors and lashings of finery that’s beloved by George Clooney and Michelin inspectors

Is this Ireland’s best hotel? Inside Ballyfin, a breathtaking Regency mansion with secret doors and lashings of finery that’s beloved by George Clooney and Michelin inspectors

Staying at Ballyfin Demesne is like playing house in a museum.In this Regency mansion in Ireland’s Midlands, guests can warm themselves by Carrara marble fireplaces and comb through a library of 5,000 books.They can check their reflection in glinting Chippendale...