15 Best Things to Do in Clonmel (Ireland)
County Tipperary’s largest town, Clonmel is in the Suir River Valley, with the Comeragh Mountains and Slievenamon ever-present on the skyline. The town is known for its stout resistance to …
15 Best Things to Do in Drogheda (Ireland)
Drogheda, by the Boyne Estuary in East Ireland, is a town with captivating history in its backyard. The Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site is a complex of three massive …
14 Best Things to Do in Bray (Ireland)
When the Dublin and Kingstown Railway arrived in Bray in 1854 this coastal town just 20 kilometres from Ireland’s capital became a seaside resort for Dubliners. Early on, Bray was …
15 Best Day Trips from Dublin
Dublin is a city rich in history and culture. Home to the famous Temple Bar and Molly Malone statue it’s easy to fall madly in love with the rustic charm …
15 Best Things to Do in Letterkenny (Ireland)
Rated Ireland’s “tidiest town” in 2015, Letterkenny is a bonny market town, close to where the River Swilly widens into a fjord on the northwest coast. Lough Swilly and the …
15 Best Things to Do in Naas (Ireland)
When people working in Dublin want to flee from big city life they settle in quiet commuter towns like Naas. Out in rural County Kildare you’re 35 kilometres from the …
15 Best Things to Do in Tullamore (Ireland)
Near the very centre of Ireland, Tullamore is a town divided by the Grand Canal, which first linked the Midlands with Dublin back in 1798. A decade earlier, this place …
15 Best Things to Do in Sligo (Ireland)
The seaport of Sligo in the northwest of Ireland is somewhere that will always be associated with the poet W. B. Yeats. His mother was from the town, and Yeats …
15 Best Things to Do in Athlone (Ireland)
The town of Athlone is at an ancient crossing point on the Shannon River, near the very centre of Ireland. When the idea of a federal Irish Republic was floated …
15 Best Things to Do in Wexford (Ireland)
In Ireland’s “Ancient East”, Wexford is a town founded by the Vikings at the start of the 9th century. It’s just the place to connect with Ireland’s distant past, at …