Finn Lough: How a brother and sister turned frozen bank funds into fantasy bubble domes

The Co Fermanagh bubble domes are one of Instagram’s hottest tickets, but the idea took a lot of hard work (and convincing of banks) to realise...

Finn Lough - the Irish bubble domes that took the internet by storm

Chrissie Russell

As soon as Michael Beare sent his sister Gillian a picture of transparent inflatable domes he’d spotted at a trade fair in Barcelona, she knew they were exactly what they’d been looking for.

Since 2013, when the siblings had taken over the running of their parents’ business, Fermanagh Lakeland Lodges, a small collection of traditional holiday cottages on Muckross Peninsula, they’d known they wanted to bring something totally different to the site.