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This is very sad news indeed. I posted details a few months ago of a documentary film called "The Yellow Bittern" about Liam Clancy which had limited cinema release in Ireland . Since then it has been shown on Irish television and has turned out to be a wonderful eulogy to the man Bob Dylan described as the best ballad singer he ever heard. If you get a chance to view it, I'd take it and listen to the story of this...

It would appear, according to the article below from the Irish Independent, that there will be reductions on Bus Eireann services from early 2010. While some of them may not be particularly relevant to Trip Advisor members (i.e. city services in places such as Limerick), its quite possible that others not mentioned in the article may be. So do check timetables before you travel. independent.ie/business/irish/bus-eireann-to…

You also have to consider if you will be saving much or getting value when you take into account flights and accommodaition costs etc... of travelling to Antwerp. Also if anything goes wrong with the ring e.g. a stone becomes loose or falls out how do you go about sending it to be repaired. Edited: 9:49 am, today

I heard this on the 6/1 news this evening. Really sad. He was a truly great singer and irishman. I only saw "The Yellow Bittern" a few weeks ago and would agree that it's a great film on his life! I love his rendition of "Waltzing Matilda" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCekeoSTwg Edited: 3:40 pm, yesterday

Hi All. thanks again for the tips! Yes, I think 8 hours on a bus would leave us...a bit stiff, if nothing else. The airplane trip this time is only 17 hours from start to finish (which is better than the last one, that had us on the road for 26 hours and we were blasted when we landed), so the last thing we'll want to do is spend another entire day seated in a confined space. I'm going to be hobbling like I'm 90 for a day or...

a good walk on Christmas day is what most people would do - that and going to some sort of a mass or religious meeting. Yes, make sure that you have booked at your hotel for christmas day lunch, or purchase some lunch items yourself. There will be some corner shops (mostly foreign owned) and some garages open during Christmas day - garages are basically convenience stores as well as places to get petrol for your car. The day after Christmas...

That report sounds (just a bit) like a ski trip that we had Kijones:)

From Baltimore, you can easily make a day trip to Cork City, it's probably close to 2 hours each way if you're not used to the roads. Not sure which other larger cities you would be trying to visit from Baltimore ? Have you spent any time with a route planner like the one here: viamichelin.co.uk/viamichelin/…Ireland-map

For travelling about in Northern Ireland you should have a look at www.translink.co.uk www.irishrail.ie will give you train timetable from Dublin Connolly to Belfast Central. Just repeated what tapl has already said...oooops ! Sorry. Edited: 5:23 pm, yesterday

Glad that you've got your contingency plans in place :-) Feel very sorry for some of the people of Carrick at the moment - even before the storms the waters were very high (way over the lovely new board-walks and already lapping into the Marina car-park opposite the Landmark Hotel) and then afterwards a lots of those new-build townhouses on the western side of the Shannon were completely trashed with no electricity or anything. The...