Hi Tom ,welcome to this rather mad but friendly group.When you get to know them they are always eating ,usually chips with chocolate. Yes I have been to Eirs a few times, I have done the tourist bus in Dublin three times with various relatives several years apart,the tour guide's jokes were always the same, and I don't ever hear of Dublin without remembering "the tart with a cart" . The best trip we ever had in Ireland was on the Shannon /Erne waterway .I would have liked to go to the west coast, alas too late now . The only thing I didn't like in Dublin was Giunness Jenny from North London