I’m going to be breezing through the Emerald Isle in a bit … anybody close to the following spots?:
Dublin
Meath & Westmeath
Galway
Clare
Kerry
Kinsale, Cork
Kilkenny
Wicklow
This is your idea of “breezing” through? 
djm
In only 9 days, it’s gonna leave a wind wake. 
it’s a relative term, innit?
too many tornados of late there?
Well…
I have been accused of being an old wind-bag. 
Just guessing here Anniemcu, but it looks like you are starting in the east in Dublin, heading west to Galway and then heading south?
Any particular reason for missing out on the North of Ireland?
You’ll have a good time regardless, when do you intend being there?
Any time from Mid May onwards the weather is not too bad, it can still be very wet then, but at least you shouldn’t freeze.
Just think of all those nice warm pubs and music and crack!!
Unfortunately, we miss the entirety of the North. My friend who booked the trip went with this company, and I don’t know whether her preferences were all in the lower section or if the company just set it up that way. I’m disappointed, but it wasn’t my choice to make, so I won’t complain too loudly.
We’re arriving on Wednesday, the 7th. Looks like I’ll be packing the long sleeved shirts. Your solution for warmth suits me just fine, though.
Sorry Annie, it won’t be ‘warm’ at that time of year!!! When the Atlantic airstream hits the west coast of Ireland, it is refered to as a lazy wind: it is too lazy to blow around you so it just blows straight through you!!!
Like I said, the pubs are warm.
One last thing, be prepared for plenty of liquid sunshine!! 
Liquid sunshine, eh? … I’ve packed me poncho, I have.
And given that we are having a very late frost right this very minute (%*$&%#@! - there go all those lovely apple, peach, plum, apricot and cherry blossoms - looks like another year of no fruit!), even cold and drizzly, it can hardly be much worse than home.
Oh, and it seems that the reason we are sticking to the lower parts is that this company isn’t insured for Northern Ireland at this time. Seems an odd thing in this day and age, but then…
Poncho? Yoo doan need no steenkin tourist poncho. Just walk around wet like the locals do. 
I Probably will.
I am sure you will have a great time in the Emerald Isle. You have heard of the song ‘Forty shades of green’?..a gross underestimation I must say!!! I know so many people who have been to Ireland and complained about the weather and forgot to have a good time. The last time I was back home, it was non stop liquid sunhine for 7 weeks! Every photo that I took has no clear blue skies, even though we went in the middle of summer. The weather was balmy and around the 18-20 degrees centigrade mark. Every day was overcast and it rained most days, so there was always clouds in the sky, didn’t stop me from having a ball though. Have fun Annie!!!
I don’t really care what the weather is like. I’ll be in Ireland!!! … ancestral home of some of my forebears, and a gem of beauty I’ve longed to examine up close. Pubs are sanctuary enough for me when it gets a bit too chilly, or when the opportunity presents itself. I have no doubt that I will enjoy it greatly. With any luck, my friend and I will not have been in each other’s intense company so much as to have us flying home on opposite sides of the plane - having bribed some poor soul to trade so we can have some peace from one another.
I’ll be arriving in cork on the friday after you fly in. Staying around there or limerick or ennis for a week. Planning on finding as many tunes as possible..
We hit Cork on the Monday following. Leave some of those tunes for me!!
Lovely little tune, that, BTW.
Annie…I still wish you could go in the middle of June instead!!
How come no one ever wants to go to Cavan? I am here till Sunday, hope you enjoy your trip!
J.
Me too!
I’d love to! All those lovely horse events!!
I will be in Cork and Clare the 20th-28th of May.
For you feadogin
CAVAN GIRL
As I walk the road from Killeshandra, weary I sit down
For it’s twelve long miles around the lake to get to Cavan town
'Though Oughter and the road I go, one scene beyond compare
How I curse the time it takes to reach my Cavan girl so fair.
The autumn shades are on the leaves, the trees will soon be bare
Each red coat leaf around me seems to colour all her hair
My gaze retreats, defies my feet and once again I sigh
Of a broken pool of sky reminds the colour of her eyes.
At the Cavan cross each Sunday morning it’s there she can be found
And she seems to have the eye of every boy in Cavan town
If my luck will hold I’ll have the golden summer of her smile
And to break the hearts of Cavan men she’ll talk to me a while
So next Sunday evening finds me homeward to Killeshandra bound
To work a week till I return to court in Cavan town
When asked if she would be my wife, at least she’d not said no
So next Sunday morning rouse myself and back to her I go
X:1
T:My Cavan Girl
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David