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Ireland

Forty shades of green, one great welcome.

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Ireland is best measured in moments rather than miles: a trad session finding its rhythm in a snug pub, cliffs dropping seven hundred feet into Atlantic spray, forty shades of green sliding past the windscreen on roads built for wandering. For British and Irish expats in the Gulf it is halfway home — with the holiday built in.

The west coast is the masterpiece. Point the car down the Wild Atlantic Way, alternate castle hotels with farmhouse breakfasts, and let Kerry, Clare and Connemara argue over which owns the best view. Golfers, meanwhile, know exactly why they’re here: links courses the equal of anywhere on earth.

Where to go

Finding your Ireland

Dublin

Georgian squares, Trinity’s library and a pint where it’s brewed.

The Wild Atlantic Way

2,500km of cliff-edge coast from Cork to Donegal.

Kerry & the southwest

The Ring of Kerry, Killarney’s lakes and Dingle’s dolphins.

Seasons

When to go

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Things to experience

Moments worth flying for

Cliffs of Moher at golden hour

Seven hundred vertical feet of Atlantic drama.

Trad music sessions

Fiddles in snug corners — we know which pubs.

Links golf pilgrimages

Ballybunion, Lahinch and Portmarnock tee times.

Castle-stay nights

Four-posters and falconry on ancestral estates.

Where to stay

Styles that suit

Castle hotels

Ashford and Dromoland grandeur.

Georgian townhouses

Dublin doors with breakfast worth waking for.

Coastal country houses

Turf fires after Atlantic walks.

We recommend specific hotels once we know your dates and party — availability and rates are always confirmed by a specialist.

Popular holidays

Trips we build to Ireland

Our itineraries are starting points, not fixed packages — open one for the full day-by-day plan, then let us reshape it around you.

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Ireland, in pictures

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