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Europe’s ‘most popular capital’ for city breaks is just an hour’s flight from the UK

Europe’s ‘most popular capital’ for city breaks is just an hour’s flight from the UK

It is not too difficult to work out why the aviation routes between the UK and Dublin are so well used, given the large number of people born in Ireland who now live in the UK

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