Based ona trip to the SE of RoI last September...
Unless you like kiss-me-quick hat stylee seaside resorts avoid tramore itself. if you like swimming though, get thee to quillamene swimming club a couple of miles west just before the metal man.
Pubs - the pubs we were constantkly told wold be "good for tourists" we found generally not to our likeing, trying to be all things to all men... family diners, lads watching sport on a big screen, old boys in the corner, couples out on a dinner date etc etc etc... and probably TBH fail at all of them for each demographic. We always found the pubs that we liked most werre the ones we were told to avoid! LOL. Maybe that says more about us than it does the pubs....
Food - generally quite expensive compared to the UK, especially buying in s/markets etc. Interestingly bottled beer etc wasn't substantially cheaper than pub prices (as opposed to here in the UK). Portion sizes in restaurants we found to be large
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A few ideas and general thoughts here
https://www.wildcamping.co.uk/forums/ir ... ight=diddsWe didn;t really hang out in towns and cities so much as we had a campervan, so this may not be much use to yo0u if you are relying in public transport but in partiocular we enjoyed - aside from swimming
New Ross, Wexford - new world ship "museum".
Hook Lighthouse, Wexford
Kilmour Quay, Wexford - village, cracking pub
Glendalough, Wickloow
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