Absolutley the highlight of our 3 weeks in Ireland. Great tour guide, great food, great drink, great pubs, and great craic. Don't miss out on the time of your lives. These rural pubs are some much more true than the tourist traps in temple bar!!!

I did this Rural Pub tour with some friends, for my birthday last month. We had a mixture of Cork, Dublin & Monaghan people in our group so we thought it would be nice to do something touristy, outside Dublin City for a change. We had a FANTASTIC day!!! Shane, our guide, especially made the tour for us. He was a great craic, had loads of local knowledge & entertaining stories. We met some interesting characters in every pub and had our own little sing song on the bus :) I never realised the Dublin & Wicklow mountains were so stunning. I've done similar tours in many places around the world but this has to be the best one I've ever done. It's good to see we have great tours like this in our own country. I can't recommend this tour highly enough. I think it might become an annual thing for my birthday!!

I really enjoyed the Saturday tour. The meeting location was great(for us) by Trinity College. We went to a variety of rural pubs and drove through the beautiful hilly countryside with baby lambs everywhere. I really liked visiting the countryside since our trip was originally only to Dublin for the week (we ended up stranded for an additional week due to the volcano ash shutting down airspace) The meal options at the restaurant we stopped at were surprisingly very tasty, filling, and offered at a reasonable price. Shane offered to take photos for us and recommended a really great beer to my husband called Smithwicks. The prices at the pubs we visited were much more reasonable than in town and we had a good group of people on our tour which added to the experience. There was one pub owned by an elderly man that looks like it hasn't changed in YEARS. Shane jumped behind the bar to help him which we found amusing We were dropped off at our hotel at the end which was very helpful.

The "Thirsty Thursday" rural pub tour was the best night my husband and I had in our week long stay in Dublin. Our guide Shane was so much fun, and really looked after the group while feeling like he was part of it. The pubs were great and the Irish stew at Nancy Murphy's was excellent. The Blue Light, Harbor Bar and Johnny Fox's were all great pubs with fun atmospheres, and all the people we met local and on the tour were very nice and fun. The only bad part was that it had to end!