I am new to this forum, but the information I have found tonight has been trip changing. Basically my wife and I (mid 20's) are traveling to Ireland for 5 days (last week of October) on our way to visit my brother at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. We want to see as much as possible in Ireland, but after reading a lot of posts I am worried that we are cramming too much in and thereby seeing less while trying to see more, if that makes any sense. Here is what we wanted to do:

Day 1: Arrive Shannon in the AM. Head to Galway via Newmarket on Fergus, start seeing Galway (cliffs of moher especially)
Day 2: Finish seeing Galway start heading towards Limerick and Tipperary (Cashel)
Day 3: Drive to Kerry and see either the Ring of Kerry or the Dingle Peninsula, stay in Kilarney
Day 4: See Kilarney, drive to Cork
Day 5: Early drive to Waterford, Wicklow and end in Dublin
Day 6: Flight out of Dublin

Out of all of these things I think the Dublin day is the craziest, but I could definitely be wrong. From what we have heard from friends and family we are not worried about missing out on Dublin, we would rather spend that time seeing the other things on this list. Also, there aren't really any "we have to see this" items either, we are very adaptable and would love some input from people who know what they are talking about, which is most definitely not us!

Anyway, thanks in advance for your help, and thanks for all of the information that you have assembled here. I am so glad that we found this site, it seems like it will be a great resource from now until the day we leave!

Dave