Discover Ireland

Discover Ireland

Discover Ireland and experience the island’s most iconic attractions, breathtaking landscapes and historic landmarks. From vibrant cities and charming towns to dramatic coastal routes and ancient sites, Ireland offers unforgettable experiences at every turn.

This category brings together the best places to visit, hidden gems and practical travel guides to help you confidently plan your journey across Ireland.

  • Crumlin Road Gaol

    Walk in through the gates on the Crumlin Road and you end up standing in the Circle, the point where four wings of a Victorian prison fan out around you. Crumlin Road Gaol held…

  • Dunluce Castle

    Stand at the roadside on the Causeway Coast and look across at a ruined castle sitting on its own rock, with the sea working away at the cliff underneath it. That is Dunluce. What is…

  • Causeway Coastal Route

    Leave Belfast heading north along the shore of Belfast Lough and within half an hour the city is behind you and the road is running between the hills and the sea. That is the start of…

  • Things to do in Derry

    Walk up the steps onto Derry’s walls at Shipquay Gate and you are standing on top of the only complete set of city walls left in Ireland, built between 1613 and 1619 and never once…

  • Titanic Belfast

    Titanic Belfast stands on the slipways where the ship was built, in what was the Harland and Wolff yard, and the building is shaped like four ship’s prows standing on end. Inside, nine…

  • Old Bushmills Distillery

    Pull off the Causeway Coastal Route at Bushmills and walk into a distillery that has been making whiskey on the same patch of ground for more than four hundred years. It sits two miles…

  • Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge

    Take a walk out to the edge of the County Antrim coast and cross a rope bridge hanging a hundred feet above the sea. Carrick-a-Rede is sixty-six feet of plank and wire strung between…

  • Belfast Cruise Port Guide

    I have met ships at the Belfast Cruise Port most weeks of the season for nine years, and the thing that decides whether people get a good day here is not what they see. It is how early…