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Top 10 'must-see' destinations in the World! - Lonely Planet

"This is a magnificent day-tour, so worth the money, learned lots" - Jodie Monroe, Perth, WA

DEPARTS WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY YEAR ROUND FROM:

Paddys Palace, 5 Beresford Place, Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin 1 @ 8:00am

Dublin Tourism, O'Connell Street, Dublin 1 @ 8.10am

Dublin Toursim, Suffolk Street, Dublin 2 @ 8.15am

One of our most popular day-trips because:

• Passionate and informed tour-guides
• Short driving time (2.5 hours Dublin-Belfast)
• Excellent shopping
• Free-time in downtown Belfast
• St. Oliver Plunketts preserved head!
• Celtic crosses at Monasterboice
• Option to do the world famous Black Taxi Tour (£8)

The North has become a must-see for any traveller and lovers of Ireland. This tour enables you to focus on Belfast, birthplace of the Titanic and the little corner of our Motherland so ever present in World Headlines since 1969 but now experiencing a new dawn.

We introduce you to local guides, characters and customs of both the Ulster Irish and Ulster British communities while you travel in the Black Cab tour of Belfast (optional). Paddywagon is a 100% Irish company and we take great pride in our strong links and friendships with Belfast's majority Protestant/ethnic British community.

This tour also visits the Celtic Crosses at Monasterboice, set in truly Irish picturesque countryside. The ruins are of an early Christian settlement. The site houses two churches built in the 14th century or earlier, including a round tower, however the highlight are the 10th century high crosses. This is for many a photographic highlight of their time in Ireland. We also stop by in Drogheda to visit St Peters Church, to visit the unusual St Peters Church - the site of the preserved head of Catholic martyr St. Oliver Plunkett!

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ITINERARY

8am - Departs Dublin's fair city with your sparkling Irish Tour Guide and a host of other international travellers of all ages.

9.15 - After a few songs andstories en route we'll stop off at beautiful St. Peters Cathedral in Drogheda. Now before you go and think 'oh no, not another Cathedral' - we are primarily taking you here to view the fully preserved head of St. Oliver Plunketts! (beheaded by the English in 1681 and now in a glass box by the altar!).

11.45 - Arrive in world-famous Belfast

12.15 - 1.15pm - You'll have time enjoy a world famous Black Taxi Tour with an informed and articualte local guide. A true highlight of this memorable day-trip- don't miss out for only £8.00!

1.15 - 2.45 - Free time  for lunch and shopping time in Belfats bustling downtown shopping area. Excellent shops and magically much cheaper than Dublin!!

2.45pm - Depart Belfast

4.30 - After crossing the border we'll take time off the bus out in the rolling countryside of County Louth to enjoy the high Celic crosses (10th century) at the ruined monastery of Monasterboice

6pm - Back in  Dublin

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1. 100% NEVER cancel guarantee. We go 364 days a year - promise!
    
2. BEST Value! No other bus or train co. matches our affordability
    
3. BEST Guides! As seen on National TV. Award-winning, 100% Irish .. as seen National TV
    
4. BEST BUSES! Luxury Mercedes Coaches. You can ask your driver to pull over so you can take a quick photo of a wee sheep, celtic cross or maybe a leprechaun. You cant ask the driver on a train to do likewise
    
5. BEST REPUTATION! We're recommended world-wide after a decade of passionate hard work and delivering consistently good tours

OUR GUIDES MEET OUR PRESIDENT - the above pic features two of our 'senior' Day-Trip Guides, Cathal O'Connell & Stephen McPhilemy, enjoying the proud moment upon being received by Her Excellency Mary McAleese, President of Ireland at the Presidential Palace - Aras an Uachtarain - in Dublin's Phoenix Park this summer.

All of our professional guides are highly trained, proudly patriotic and among the best trained and highly respected in the world of travel.

 

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