“Another cup of tea?” asks Toni Sheehan from her spick and span kitchen at the back of her Killarney B&B.
Sitting alongside her husband Danny, she smiles warmly and tells a story about how one of her guests looked and sounded exactly like Bing Crosby.
“He was fabulous. Ninety-three years old and every morning he sang a song for the two of us,” she said.
“We had to close the door on everyone else and I’d tell them: ‘Listen outside the door, Bing Crosby is at it inside’”.
As they chat about the characters they have encountered running Larkinley Lodge on the edge of town, it’s plain to see their love for accommodating strangers.
With 25 years of experience under their belt, the Sheehans represent one of the many cogs in the vast, lucrative tourism machine of Co Kerry.
And like an increasing number of people in the Kingdom, they are finding success on Airbnb, the worldwide online rental platform.
“We absolutely love it. We thrive on it. It’s a very positive…
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