Real Dublin Tours

31/10/2023

In 2014 this young woman asked for a tour of Ireland. I obliged. 9 years later she tells me she is not leaving. She has also not yet paid for the initial tour. All advice appreciated.

12/09/2022

It was a pleasure to show Justin and Jennifer around Dublin this afternoon on the very first day of their honeymoon! Thanks for a great tour and congratulations!!

04/09/2022

The rain didn't stop us having a great tour yesterday. Thanks Chris, Aislinn and Cooper for a great day...and Cameron who is just 2 months old and already a local in Dublin!

27/06/2022

Amazing 3 hour tour with the Stansfield family from Ohio today. Enjoy your Rock n Roll travels through Ireland!

22/06/2022

Huge thanks to for a great tour today with their group from have a great time in Ireland over the next 4 weeks!

16/06/2022

Thanks to Patrick, Molly, Nicole and Richard for a great tour around Dublin in the sun this afternoon...and thanks to Patrick for the great 5 star review!

14/06/2022

Fantastic tour today with Randy, Meg, Nicole and Lonnie from South Carolina. Thanks for a great tour and the lovely 5 star review!

14/05/2022

Dave and Grant finishing off their private walking tour yesterday with a whiskey!

12/05/2022

Thanks to Libby and Bill today all the way from for a full day private walking tour of Dublin. Enjoy your travels around Ireland!

01/05/2022

Started today of with an amazing nature walking tour from Éanna Ní Lamhna along the Dodder river.

30/04/2022

Had a fantastic start to the weekend showing Cindy and Jamie from Minnesota around Dublin on a private tour. Thanks for a great tour!

23/04/2022

Kerry views with Kerry people

09/04/2022

West Coast Tours! 😎

25/03/2022

The sun directly over It's been a long time coming!

15/03/2022

Yesterday was a great aule day. Thanks and all the legends in the creative & cultural entrepreneurship course that I finally got to meet in 3D yesterday. And to for being the resident photographer!

18/11/2021

An "extremely rare and precious" collection of silent film depicting rural life in Ireland in the 1920s has been discovered in the US.

07/10/2021

The Night Before Larry Got Stretched is extremely distressed to hear of the potential plans to build a hotel on the site of The Cobblestone, in particular the plans to demolish the backroom venue which has been our home for almost ten years. This, coming just days after returning to the pub for the first time in eighteen months is particularly upsetting.

The significance of any cultural hub cannot be summed up in words but, in our case, the Cobblestone backroom has facilitated not just the monthly meeting of a traditional singing circle, but the growth of a community of young traditional singers who have come to be some of Ireland’s finest cultural exports in LANKUM, Ye Vagabonds, John Francis Flynn, Lisa O'Neill, Landless and countless others. From the very beginning, The Cobblestone has shared our vision and has done everything in its power to ensure the session, and by extension its artists, are nurtured, cared for and most of all; protected. Ask any other singing circle organiser in the city, each one will tell you that they have been shoved from pillar to post, changing homes every few years as soon as the venue loses interest. The Cobblestone has stood by us at every step of the journey. To lose it now would put us at the mercy of a city whose cultural spaces are vanishing by the minute, and could very well mean the end for our session and community entirely.

Please sign the petition (link in comments) and contact your local representatives.

06/10/2021

Demolition of The Cobblestone to make room for yet another hotel. (This will involve demolition of the backroom venue, the smoking area, and the rooms upstairs where music and Irish language classes were held, leaving only the main bar swallowed up by a 9 story hotel essentially turning the leftovers into a residents bar)

We really need people to oppose this. The Cobblestone is far more than just a pub. It is a bastion of Irish culture. People come from all over the world to share and learn Irish music, song, dance, language and storytelling.

It is at the center of this 'folk revival' we're seeing in Ireland. The scene developed within those walls. Any fans of need to know how important The Cobblestone is for this community.

Beyond that, and more importantly, the Cobblestone is the main hub for the broader traditional Irish Music community in the country. I have played with and learned from some of the very best musicians in the sessions. I have listened to some amazing music at The Night Before Larry Got Stretched sessions and Pipers Clubs gigs from musicians and singers you otherwise might never get a chance to hear. I have watched younger musicians develop into great musicians. I've watched dancers dance, singers sing, story tellers recite stories. There is nowhere else that can match the cobblestone for any of this and theres no place that promotes Irish culture to the same level as The Cobblestone. This is an attack on our culture in a City thats getting swallowed up by blind greed. We need as many people to oppose this as possible.

06/10/2021

14/05/2021

Minister Patrick O'Donovan announced today that admission charges to all fee-paying open OPW heritage sites are being waived until the end of the year. Explore what Ireland has to offer for your next outing or summer staycation on

Full details on https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/75be3-minister-odonovan-announces-free-admission-to-opw-visitor-sites-in-support-of-the-governments-recovery-and-reopening-plan/