What brought Lorna to Connemara

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What brought Lorna Roberts to Ireland?

It was after reading an article written by Dec Cluskey of "The Bachelors" that Lorna first took an interest in Connemara. Dec had written enthusiastically about his school holidays spent in the Gaeltacht learning Irish. Now, over 40 years later Dec's brother Con is organising the golf competitions on Lorna's Parador holidays.

After reading Dec's description of Connemara Lorna decided that this was the place to go. She instantly fell in love with the area and has spent most of the past 35 years there. It was in 1998, while travelling in Spain with her book "Colourful Connemara" - produced to promote Connemara all over Europe that Lorna was asked to reverse the process and introduce the Spanish Paradores to Ireland, and she has been the Irish Representative of Keytel International (the official agents for the Paradores) since then.

Her brother John and his wife Bridget, also moved from England to Connemara in 1979 and set up a fish business which developed into the award-winning Connemara Smokehouse now run by their son Graham

John now runs the West Galway School of Navigation organising navigation courses in Ireland and Portugal.