Absolutely great car service! Friendly, prompt and reasonably priced. I highly recommend. I'm going…read moreto use them again the next time I fly into Shannon.

From the owner: I offer luxury tours & transfers in Ireland. Airport transfers from Shannon international airport…read more I offer day trips & extended tours nationwide in Ireland. I offer golf tours to Ireland's best Golf clubs. If you require car & driver/guide services in Ireland please contact me for a quote! If you require transfers you can choose from a range of luxurious Mercedes vehicles. I will be delighted to assist you with your transport & touring requirements while in ireland!

Dermot O'Conner was FANTASTIC! 6 of us traveled to Ireland August 14 - 26 where our driver Dermot…read moreO'Conner met us at the Dublin Airport to start our fabulous vacation through South Ireland! He was more than we ever could have expected! His love for Ireland and his thirst for his country's history gave us an experience above and beyond all others! He took us to places we would never have known of. The Ringfinnan Garden of Remembrance to honor the NYFD firefighters from 911 is just one of many. He shared the history and culture of Ireland and even got us on a ballfield to learn a wee bit about hurling! We will always remember Dermot for his genuine kindness and love. I hope he's available for your booking! You won't be sorry!

So glad that we booked a driving tour with Dermot O'Connor at Turas Eireann! We spent five lovely…read moredays in towns, villages, and countryside from Dublin to Galway, and back again. Relaxed and excited - small tour coach for up to ten (10) people, and the small vehicle, while not little, afforded access to so many places that the double deckers cannot handle. Dermot O'Connor (Owner) is well versed in the history and geography of Ireland, and shared information about every site that we visited. He is witty and funny, and so professional and honest. Our trip to Ireland would not have had the depth of experience nor the fun and magic if we had opted for a larger tour, or driven ourselves. There is just no way that we could have packed our time with all the sites and places we went to, and enjoyed so much in a relaxed tour with a gifted tour guide and driver. Email Dermot and book your trip - you will be happy you did! We sure are!!

We got a tour from a local guide as part of the 8 Euro a head entry fee. You pay in the shop and go…read morethrough into the 'village'. Our guide showed us 3 types of seaweed and 2 dead flatfish, which he had preserved in murky salt water. He claimed these ex-fish had been in the water 16 months without stench. I asked myself, so what. The guide was a friendly enough soul but the story of how the Irish famine came about is a historically & politically complex one to be dealt with respectfully and delicately which isn't reflected much here at all. It's a ruse to draw us in. He didn't mention the Gombeen Man, a spiv wheeler-dealer or businessman who is always looking to make a quick profit, often at someone else's expense or through bribes. The term referred originally to money-lenders. It became associated with those Irish shopkeepers and merchants who exploited the starving during the Irish Famine by selling much-needed food & goods on credit at ruinous interest rates. Its origin is the Irish word "gaimbín", meaning monetary interest. It began to dawn on me that this place isn't much to do with the Irish famine at all nor does it go through 1,000 years of Irish history unless it's a fleeting journey with few stops and fewer facts. The tour starts in a house where the guide Mr Pat Doherty said he lived in until the 1980's. It was here he introduced us to the dead fish and seaweeds. He spoke of commerce & trade. He gave a naive, almost simplistic, interpretation of Ireland joining the 'free' trade European market espousing this as a chief reason why he and his fellow country folk no longer lived in hovels, eating seaweed and boiled limpets, surviving without running water or electricity. He discussed NAMA. According to him, its an Irish government - sponsored bunch of banking gombeens appointed by the Irish government to do its dirty work post an economic banking collapse caused by a different bunch of banking gombeens who lent money to folk at exorbitant rates who couldn't pay the debt back; so NAMA can take huge salaries and the blame for the dirty work to clean up all the nasty crooked stuff and the political gombeens who appointed them (and who failed initially to properly regulate the first set of banking gombeens) sidestep blame for the punitive financial brutality inflicted on Irish people by NAMA gaimbíns for the Government. He's not so far out about this avoidable mess, NAMA's mischievous origins and questionable divisive activities; let's say he certainly has the gist. We also went into an 'Irish wake house' with a dummy body in a coffin where he began telling stories of traditions & superstitions around death across Europe to do with salt, plates atop dead bodies, wailing women and fear of being buried alive. All fascinating stuff for about a minute but what's this got to do with the Irish Famine or 1,000 years of Irish history. This private sector place risks doing a disservice to the brutality of the Irish Famine ignoring the role played by Irish people who condemned their fellow citizens to appalling starvation. This place edges close to being a gaimbín creation itself. Maybe they'll open a NAMAland where they show landlord evictions. It would have a symmetry. There's also replicas of a 'Meeting House', an Orange Hall, a naff ghost House, a travellers halting site and a republican 'Safe House'. The latter has 'secret rooms' and images of Mr G Adams, the now deceased Mr I Paisley (snr) and Mr M Maginnes with various United States political giants; President William Jefferson Clinton and Mr George Mitchell. All nearly moderately interesting stuff for a few minutes but once again nowt to do with the Irish Famine. When you pay the entry fee you get a coupon for 'free' tea or coffee in the adjacent Kitty & Sean cafe. The 'free' coffee offered by these gaimbín merchants is powdered; it isn't proper coffee (they sell proper coffee at a premium price but offer no discount for your coupon if you want real coffee) and food prices here may take the smile off your face. I suspect these prices have much to do with why the locals live so well these days so gaimbínism isn't too far away here.

A great tour guide who shows parts of the city that would otherwise get missed. He is able to…read moreanswer all questions as he is born in the city.

From the owner: We offer walking tours of Kilkenny in English, French and German. Our tours last approximately two…read morehours. Your guide is a certified national tour guide.

This usually isn't my kind of thing, but it was part of our vacation package and I'm SO GLAD we did…read moreit! This was an amazing way to learn about Cobh its history and the Titanic. Our guide was local, friendly and knowledgeable. A great way to explore the town. I know it was a guided tour, but it felt like we were being shown around by a friend. DONT question, just book!

An enjoyable stop. Got to see the John F Kennedy Park, the dock where the Titanic passengers…read moreloaded, the White Star ticketing line, and a Titanic memorial. It was also a big Irish emigration port. What struck me the most was that our guide asked how many of us in our group had Irish ancestry. A good 75% of us raised our hands. She said, "Now, if you're one of the 35 million in the U.S. that claim Irish ancestry, you're family set sail for America with nothing more than courage and a dream". A wow moment right there. However, our guide was a little hard to hear, so we missed out on some useful facts. It also would've been nice to have spent a little more time at the Heritage Center during our tour (it's helpful to make a reservation if you want a more in-depth look at your genealogy)

I enjoyed this tour. You get on a Viking boat and the boat goes out as far as Hodson Bay hotel and…read moreback in. You can get off at Hodson Bay if you want and the boat that comes back out later in the day will bring you back in. It's good fun for kids. The staff are lovely and they will bring you a blanket if you get cold. They serve drink on this boat and tea/coffee. There is a tour guide. It's about an hour long. Nice tour to do on a sunny day. When you buy a ticket on the boat you get discounts into other tourist attractions.

There's nothing to see. What is most best here is educational captain's guide speech. He will tell…read moreyou how many animal species living in the area, what type of birds are migrating and so on. Few stories about how viking traveled here and there, how they robbed the places and etc. few more history facts and before you know it, you are getting back the same way you came. Great that they offer free tea and coffee, blanket to cover if cold, kids get to stare the helm. You can by beer there as well. It not bad, but this is the last thing I'd do in Athlone.

Our walking tour was with Fiona on St. Paddy's Day, so the streets were very busy and noisy…read more Nevertheless, Fiona took us down some of the less traveled streets and told us about the history of the "city of tribes". She also had a lot interesting and funny stories. Pointed out features in the buildings that normally you would not notice and what the story was behind them. The tour was just the right amount of time and distance covered.

From the owner: Galway Tours provide friendly walking tours of the heart of Galway City. Our guides are all highly…read moreexperienced and can advise on great places to eat and drink while in Galway