♪ MARY: IRELAND IS KNOWN FOR HIS MEANDERING ROCK WALLSND A STUNNING COASTLINES. BUT THE ESDAYS IRELAND BOASTS A NEW DISTINCTION. IT IS ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST NATIONS IN THE WORLD. FLUSH WITH JOBSND A MONEY, THERE IS A NEW EXUBERANCE IN THE R.AI FOR CENTURIES, GALYWA ON THE WE CSTOAST OF IRELAND WAS KNOWN AS ONE OF THE POOREST REGIO INSN THE COUNTRY. BUT LOOK AT GALWAY N.OW SO Y HOUAVE BEEN TO CLIFFS AND PUBS BUT I DOUBT YOU HAVE SEEN ANYTHING GALWAY LIKE THE G HOTEL. FLAMBOYANT AND OFTEN OVER-THE-TOP, IT HAS GENERATED QUITE THE BUZZ IT GALWAY SINCE IT OPEDNE IN 2006. >> ARE OWNER-PROPRIETOR IS FROM THE WEST OF ISLAND WITH OCKHAM LET’S CREATE A STORY, LET'’ PUT THE WEST ON THE MAP. MARY: AAM FOUS TENT MAKER FOR CLEMENS COUTURE HOUSES OF EUROPE AND RFO REALTY, TRACY, WHO GREW UP NEAR GAAYLW, SET OUT TO CREATE ANI UQUE PROPERTY THAT WAS PLAYFUL, POSH, AND HUMOROUS. >> WE CAN FIND TRADITIONAL IN IRELAND, BUT HERE IS SOMETHING THAT MAKESOU Y FEEL ALIVE IN YOURSELF. MA:RY INITIALLY, IT APPEAL TO WELL-HEEDLE DUBLINERS WHO CAME FOR GETAWAY SPOT WEEKENDS. NOW IT IS ON THE RADAR SCREEN OF SOPHISTICATED GLOBETROTTER. "TRAVEANDL LEISURE" MAGAZINE NAMED IT THE BEST DESIGNED LARGE HOTEL, DESCRIBING ITS AMBIENCE AS SWINGING SIXITIES NEEDS DR. USS.SE OVER THE LAST DECADE, GALWAY HAS BECOME A HUB FOR MEDICAL DEVICE COMPANIES. THEY HAVE CLUSTERED HERE BECAUSE THE GAAYLW CAMPUS OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ISLAND IS THIS COURYNT’S M.I.T. SCIENTISTS WER FELEEING IRELAND FOR JOBS ABROAD, BUT TODAY, IRELAND IS WOOING SCIENTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, DANGLING RESEARCH MONEY FROM GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY. GALWAY IS A WALKAEBL CITY, PERFECT FOR STROLLING ABOUT TO SHOPR O TAKE INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE. ON FOOT, YOU WILL SEE MORE SIGNS OF THE CHANGING GALWAY. IT IS GETTING HARDER, FOR INSTANCE, TO FIND A TRADITIONAL IRISH BAKERY. ONE OF THE LAST IS GRIFFIN’S, FOUNDED IN 1876. JIMMY GRIFFIN IS A FIFTH-GENERATION BAKER WHO STILL US E THE SAME SIMPLE INGREDIENTS FROM BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN THE BREADS WERE "FIRED EVA ANDNS DELIVERED BY HORSE-DRAWN CART-- CO-FALIRED OVENS AND DELIVERED BY HORSE-DRAWN CART. >> FLOUR, YEAST, WATER. WE ALLOW IT TO FERMENT. THAT IS WHAT GIVES THEM THE FLAVOR AND PICTURE THAT MESAK THEM UNIQUE. THIS IS WHY, I PRESUME, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COMING TO US FOR 130 YEARS. MA:RY DRIVEL AND HER HUSBAND RUN THIS INN, MEANING "RESTLFU HEEL" IN GAELIC. IT IS A CULTURAL BED-AND-BREAASKFT. >> THE IDEAS PEOPLE WOULD COME OUT HEREND A YOU GET A SENSE YOU ARE IN WILDERNESS, ALMOST. THERE IS A SENSE OF TIMELESSNESS IN THE PLA.CE MA:RY THE SPIRITS OF THOSE WHO DWELL HERE ARE ALL AROUND YOU JUST THE SAME. >> THE PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO APPRECIATE WHAT IT WAS BEFORE AND CELEBRATE THE PEOPLE OF THOSE TIMES.