Sparky,

Welcome to my forum. Congratulations on your anniversary. How nice that you get to celebrate it with a trip to Ireland.

There is no shortage of shopping in Dublin, Limerick and Killarney. Just walk out of your hotels and you will have lots of choices. In Killarney I like Quills for its diversity and prices. There is also Killarney Outlet Mall.

Not all pub restaurants will have traditional Irish music. It depends on day of the week and other factors. Your tour guide or hotel concerige will be able to help you with that.

In Killarney some places that I eat and have moderate prices (early bird menus), etc.

Mac's of Main Street
Vanilla Pod
Bricin
Murphy's Pub
Foley's Pub
Flesk
Jam (lunch and snacks)

In Limerick:

Locke Bar
Dolan's
Texas Steakout

Dublin:

Gallagher's Boxty House
Porterhouse
Brazen Head
Oliver St. John Gogarty's
Doheny & Nesbitt
O'Donoghue's

Michele

Thanks Michele for your warm welcome and the information provided. This is our first trip to Ireland and once we get our feet wet this time.  Then we we'll go it alone and plan our own trip the next time. Tony2phones go information also. When we travel we like enjoy the customs and tradition of the country and stay away Mc D's and etc. and tourist traps. We like to see the beauty of the real country of Ireland, its people and there stories.

In that case you will have to try Fords Chipper when in Limerick.

After three weeks of wind and rain the sun is out the midges have hatched(unfortunately) and we have just taken the first top cut off the grass in blazing sunshine. Most of the flowers have still to bud although many have passed and the Gorse is not bright yellow any more but the land is green. According to the farming neighbours the month should be mainly dry and warm, so fingers crossed.

Sparky,

I'm not a big chipper fan so haven't tried Burdock's. I hear mixed reviews of it. But perhaps you will give us your "chipper reviews" when you get back?

Michele

Hi Sparky,

We just got back from Ireland and celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary. So congrats. One place that stands out from reading your questions is GO TO TATLER JACKS. It was our favorite pub in Killarney. The food was excellant. The streets are full of shops in Killarney. We got some really good deals. My wife and daughter picked up some Aran Sweaters for 39euro. What is nice is most of the shops were open until 30 past 9 at night. In Dublin I would suggest the Brazen Head pub and go to the Temple bar Area of the city. It's very lively at night. We ate at Shack's and the food was excellant. We also went to Sweeney's which has a slightly younger crowd but the music and food was very good. I had fried brie for the first time and it was remarkable. There are two Sweeney's in Dublin this is the one in or near the Temple bar area not the one on Dame st.

 

http://www.brazenhead.com/

http://www.dublinks.com/index.cfm/loc/8/pt/0/spid/459EA896-DB44-48F3-9ECE4CF167907012.htm

 

Wellsley if I may a couple of question.. 1. Money will be using captial one visa for purchases and the atm to get euro is the way to go.......... 2. Clothes what is exceptable standard for day tripping. We like jeans and sport shirts 3. How is the weather? 70s ? Thanks again being a new bee I have question.

I try to recommend good pubs, glad the Tattler came up to the mark.

Hannigans is nice enough but as you say a bit top end on price (and a little low on full plates) as are most of the Hotel restaurants. Chapter 40 is the place to go for something a bit special. Did you get into O'Connors which is my regular haunt? bit smaller and can get rather packed but the food there is usually good and wholesome, we have been sent upstairs to eat on a couple of occasions (very nice but for some reason little used dining room).

Nursing sunburn this morning after tidying around outside the past two days and with bank holiday weekend just considering which local festival to drop in on.

Michele good evening
I want to thank you for you and all the member here for your ideas and guidance. We won't be flying to Ireland this year due to issue miss flights and poor support from brendon tours. My wife and I are disappointed but we will start planning again in january. Most importantly we had insuranceand a very good agent. Michele will be your book shortly. Again thanks all.