Rural Pub Tours

Dublin is blessed with easily accessible coastal beaches and harbours such as Howth and Dun Laoghaire, but the distant backdrop to many a city street is a mountain. Visitors who have tasted the pleasures of central Dublin, including Temple Bar can drink in the spectacular scenery of the adjacent Wicklow and Dublin Mountains from the comfort of a bar stool. Shane O’Donohoe’s Rural Pub Tours facilitates this stressless activity by transporting small groups through the hills and valleys. Having spent time shopping and browsing in the city, a nice contrast and welcome break for holidaymakers in rural Ireland has a lot of appeal. Thirst will never be a problem because there is always a watering hole around the next bend. Drinking in the view and drinking pints of Guinness in uniquely atmospheric country pubs is a hardship worth enduring! Traditional style hostelries display interesting memorabilia and fascinating curios. They also provide traditional Irish Music. The tour, which only takes place at weekend, lasts for nine hours, visits pubs of the calibre of Johnny Foxes – the highest pub in Ireland – the Blue Light and Glenmalure Lodge where the participants dine in style in what was once a hunting lodge. On weekdays Rural Pub Tours organises evening trips from 7 p.m. during which three pubs are visited including The Merry Ploughboy in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains.

The tours start in Nassau Street beside Trinity College in the city centre. The cost of the weekend tour is 59 Euro per person and includes dinner and the weeknight trips pitch in at 30 Euro, but dinner is not included.

Last words from Shane Donohoe: “There is more to Ireland than Temple Bar.”

November 13th, 2009 admin
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