Beautiful castle on the coast in Dalkey; great place to visit when spending the day in this…read morebeautiful village.

When you're on the Dart on the way to Bray, when you're just left Dalkey train station, turn your…read morehead to left (or better yet, sit in the rearward facing seat and avoid neck strain) and you will see the lovely vista of Dalkey terrace. These lovely pastel-coloured Victorian houses are the only houses that were actually built out of what was meant to be a housing project on a much larger scale that was interrupted by the arrival of the famine. These houses are amongst the most expensive private residences in Ireland. Bono lives in one, while Enya and Jim Sheridan live just around the corner. So if you're heading south on a Dart out that way, try to guess which house is Bono's and give it the finger. The smug hypocritical little twat.