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[Squiggle]

I've a friend coming over from the US next month. We'd like to take a trip to one of the offshore Islands for a couple of days.

Neither of us will be driving so it needs to be fairly easily accessable by public transport. I've been looking at the Islands off the West Coast, but I've never been to any of them and it's melting my head.

Please help.

 

[ann post]

i did arranmore, off donegal a few years ago, from a point of public transport its a nightmare.

you need to get to a town called burtonport which is near dungloe, which is theoretically served by bus eireann and lough swilly buses. you could possibly need to taxi to burtonport.

there is a hostel on the island and a few pub/restaurants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranmore

aran islands off galway would probably be easier.

 

[Sufi]

Go to the Arran Islands.
I know they have bus and ferry tickets that you can buy in galway.
Inis Mean is great fun, you can rent bikes and take a trip to the fort, great fun in the pubs at night and i hear they have a supermacs now..

Theres a really nice hostel on the island but the name escapes me at the moment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inis_Meáin

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

ive always wanted to go to inish boffin. cape clear is lovely, you get the ferry from baltimore and i'd imagine there must be plenty buses that go there, it might be a bit of a trek from dublin though. go to lough derg for the laugh

 

[Squiggle]

Good suggestions, please keep them coming. Derg's not a bad idea either.

Oh, and preferably somewhere where there is more to do at night than just drink... my friend doesn't indulge.

 

[snakybus]

oh, I'm sure you can think of something to do...

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

gotta be the aran islands i reckon or inis turk looks beautiful too,not sure how accesible it is though...have a look here for info on all our islands

http://www.oileain.ie/en

 

[ann post]

dont rule out this island
!ninjaaaa

 

[HMD]

Dalkey Island is a good spot

 

[Squiggle]

dont rule out this island
!ninjaaaa

Thanks dude, we're starting there...

 

[Super Dexta]

ive always wanted to go to inish boffin. cape clear is lovely, you get the ferry from baltimore and i'd imagine there must be plenty buses that go there, it might be a bit of a trek from dublin though. go to lough derg for the laugh

Sherkin and Cape Clear are great, it's an awful hike on public transport though.. 4 hour bus journey/2.5 hour train journey to Cork, nearly 2 hour bus journey from Cork to Skibbereen and then you might be in time for the 6 o'clock bus to Baltimore but you probably wouldn't be. Then another hour on the ferry to Cape Clear.
Spread over two days the journey would be grand. The Aran islands are way easier to get to from Dublin though.

 

[Squiggle]

Sherkin and Cape Clear are great, it's an awful hike on public transport though.. 4 hour bus journey/2.5 hour train journey to Cork, nearly 2 hour bus journey from Cork to Skibbereen and then you might be in time for the 6 o'clock bus to Baltimore but you probably wouldn't be. Then another hour on the ferry to Cape Clear.
Spread over two days the journey would be grand. The Aran islands are way easier to get to from Dublin though.

Yeah, it's just too much. We'd spend more time travelling than anything else.

 

[ann post]

http://www.oileain.ie/en/TheIslands/map/

rathlin also looks handy, transport is just easier over the border.

 

[kings lead hat]

howth.

 

[flashback]

oh no... Sherkin! I love Sherkin. I lived there for 4 months.

A quiet sunny day on Sherkin is heaven. I would take it above anywhere I've been to on the planet.

I fucking love the place. And the Islands around it too.
I am almost frightened to go back to it I like it so much, as the reality can't compare to the place at this point.



One of the saddest experiences of my life was sitting in a subway station on the way into work, in 35 degree heat watching the rats crawling about, thinking this time last year, I was on Sherkin.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Try Ireland's Eye.

 

[snakybus]

Try Ireland's Eye.

I wonder does Japan have a similarly-named island.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I just checked google maps. There's no Ireland's Eye in Japan. There is though a New Ireland in Papua New Guinea.

 

[Deleted member 3435]

There's no Ireland's Eye in Japan. .

A pint of plain's your only man.

this song writes itself.

eh...

Enough with the saki
Somethin' tabacci
...mumblemumble...man!

 

[Diddles]

tory Island is supposed to be great. You could FLY to Donegal airport and get a taxi to the ferry