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Rachel Gaffney on her travels

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Rachel Gaffney is a travel planner who books and curates trips for several hundred US visitors in Ireland a year.

Born in Cork, living in Dallas, Texas, she spends months travelling around this island every year, and also has years of experience working in hotels.