[Trash-talk] NGR: HELP!! advice from a super cool Irish-savvy girl

[Shirley vixen]

i dont know if there are many irish people on tt.. and im northern but i 
still know stuff.. also simon is from dublin, but like he doesnt know his 
way anywhere.. no really thats true.. simon gets lost in dublin... i know my 
way round it better than he does... also he *still* doesnt know where i live 
(yes i remember that alison managed to direct the taxi driver at my party 
and not you! :P)

anyways... thats off the subject

as ive said a million times.. cork.. *tuts* but you never listened to me.. i 
mean you'll enjoy it but why the hell did you choose CORK?! you had the damn 
choice of UCD in dublin - UCD is an excellent uni.. and the university of 
galway is more central than cork.. cork is at the bottom.. you're close to 
france but thats about it!

but yeah ive been thinking about it.. i said raynair http://www.ryanair.ie 
from dublin but i think it flies from somewhere in the south limerick or 
shannon perhaps so that might be okay.. you're relatively close to shannon 
airport so when you're planning your flight to ireland you might think of 
flying there its a huge international airport.. well relatively "huge" (aer 
lingus) anyways to get out of ireland i prefer the plane.. see ryanair.. it 
does the cheap flights. dublin to london to paris to brussels etc etc also 
aer lingus from shannon or dublin.. i dont know any other irish cheap 
airlines.. they are different to the ones im used to (uk) but yeah...

there is also ferries.. you can get ferries from rosslare and even from cork 
or somewhere near it.. but they mostly go to france from down there.. maybe 
to england i dont know.. :/ dun laoghaire (dublin port) goes to holyhead 
which is in wales and from there you can go to various parts of england and 
that.. although holyhead is in wales remember and to get to london it takes 
ages and the traffic is REALLY bad.. :) but yeah.. you would have to get 
coach or train.. however you'll be a student.. you'll be on the coach 
probably.. you can get coach from cork probably to london even.. for one 
price it includes everything.. www.gobycoach.com, www.eurolines.com i think 
www.nationalexpress.com  there will be a lot of transport links though from 
cork to dublin to different areas in ireland cos it is a university town...

i havent been much to the very south of ireland.. it always hits me as being 
super remote.. i dont know why thats so very hypocrital from me.. but im 
like cork.. thats the middle of nowhere! but really i cant talk i guess you 
could count where i live as being far from civilisation!

however if you make it to dublin or belfast i shall come and try to meet 
you.. also i will probably be in london A LOT this year so maybe i could 
even meet you there.. i do recommend that while you are in ireland you make 
it to the north.. its very beautiful and worth visiting.. pat was here a 
month or two ago and i dont know what he thought.. he didnt make it to co. 
antrim but he should have.. belfast - an amazing city is nothing to the 
county of antrim though

lou
xx

hope all of this helps
>So I just turned in my application to study abraod at University >College 
>Cork. I have some questions about the general travel situation >in Ireland. 
>What's the best way to get to Dublin? London? The rest of >Europe? How much 
>does stuff like that cost?? There are places on-line >with info, but 
>nothing's better than asking people who've lived there >or have experience 
>traveling there. Thank you so much!!
>
>**Lauren**
>
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