Our tips for Ireland
In Ireland you can spend one day driving past cliffs battered by the Atlantic and the next tucked into a cosy tea room with a warm scone. Hike past grazing sheep to tumbling waterfalls, run wild on beaches that turn enormous at low tide and gaze out over the jagged Skellig islands from the Skellig Ring. We spent almost four weeks travelling around Ireland in our camper, from Dublin via Cork and the Ring of Kerry up the west coast. We got rain, storms and even a heatwave, and picked up plenty of tips along the way. From the best things to do in Dublin to the most beautiful stops on the Wild Atlantic Way: this is where your trip through Ireland begins.
- Capital
- Dublin
- Population
- 5.5 million
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- High season
- June to August
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB), Shannon (SNN), Cork (ORK)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 (UTC+1 in summer)
- Driving
- On the left
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Road trip through Ireland
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