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Transport
By plane :
There are several regular flights :
AER LINGUS, an Irish company, has regular flights
between Paris/CDG1 and Dublin, Cork and Shannon.
The flight lasts 90 minutes. The company also does
connecting flights to Galway, Sligo et Kerry.
AIR INTER has regular flights between Paris CDC2
and Dublin.
BRIT AIR, between Brest, Nantes and Cork.
TAT, between Quimper, Lannion and Cork from April
to September.
From May to September
between Rouen/Cork, Quimper/Dublin and
Poitiers/Dublin.
Via
Great Britain :
AIR UK, BRITISH AIRWAYS,
CITYFLYER EXPRESS and BRITISH MIDLAND.
Charter flights :
ASHLING, departures from Paris, Toulouse, Lyon,
Marseilles and Nantes to Cork and Shannon from
April
GO VOYAGES flights between Paris/Cork,
Paris/Dublin, and Lyon/Cork.
JET TOURS/JUMBO.Paris/Dublin and Paris/Cork.
LOOK CHARTERS, NOUVELLE LIBERTE, NOUVELLES
FRONTIERES, ORVAC, PACHA TOURS, PLEIN VENT VOYAGES
and USIT VOYAGES all do charter flights to
Ireland.
Car ferries :
BRITTANY FERRIES, from mid-March to mid-May,
there is once a week a crossing between Roscoff and
Cork. The crossing takes 16 hours.
Up until the end of September the crossings Roscoff
or Saint-Malo/Cork take place three times a week.
The crossing takes 18 hours.
IRISH FERRIES have daily crossings from Le Havre or
Cherbourg/Rosslare all the year round. There are
also daily crossings between Le Havre/Cork,
Cherbourg/Cork, Roscoff/Cork during the summer
season. There are special prices available for
travellers up to the end of June and from the end
of September. They do three crossings a week
between Roscoff or Saint-Malo/Cork until the end of
September.
Via Great Britain :
BRITTANY FERRIES, HOVERSPEED, IRISH FERRIES/P
AND O EUROPEAN FERRIES, DEAFRANCE, SWANSEA-CORK
FERRIES, STENA LINE
Bus Ferries:
EUROLINES do trips by bus leaving from Paris to
Dublin, Cork, Galway, Tralee and
Limerick.
Eurotunnel :
Le Shuttle goes between France and England
every day, all year round, between Calais and
Folkestone.
The crossing takes 35 minutes.
From
Switzerland
By plane:
There are daily direct flights leaving from
Zurich to Dublin. Flights from Geneva/Zurich to
Dublin and
Basle/Zurich to Dublin have the advantage of APEX
prices. There are connecting flights from Dublin to
Shannon, Cork, Galway, Killarnay, Sligo,
Connacht/Knock.
There are other possibilities via Paris, Amsterdam
or London.
From the end of May to September, there are other
charter flights Zurich/Shannon, Zurich/Knock,
Zurich/Killarney, Zurich/Cork and
Geneva/Dublin.
From
Canada
By plane :
There are regular charter flights from May to
October towards Dublin or Shannon, which last 6
hours
AIR TRANSAT HOLIDAYS, SUNQUEST VACATIONS LTD.
A return flight costs between 399 and 799 Can.$
depending on the dates.
Other flights :
AER LINGUS,via New York (JFK), Boston (Logan) and
on to Dublin or Shannon.
Via Great Britain
:
AIR CANADA, BRITISH AIRWAYS,
CANADIAN AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL.
With connecting flights for Shannon or Dublin from
Londres, the flight last an hour between
Londres/Dublin.
From
Belgium
By plane :
AIR LINGUS does several daily flights between
Brussels and Dublin with connections to Cork,
Shannon, Galway, Sligo and Killarney
It also does flights from Paris and Amsterdam.
ALITALIA has 5 flights a week from Brussels to
Dublin.
CONNECTIONS has flights with SATA for young people
and students with special low prices
PETRA TOURS does charter flights every Saturday
from June to September from Brussels to Shannon
SABENA, Brussels/Dublin, and flights to Ireland
from Amsterdam, Maastricht via London and
Manchester.
VIRGIN ATLANTICS CITYJET, five regular flights a
week from Brussels to Dublin.
Car ferries :
Direct crossings from France :
From le Havre, Cherbourg and Roscoff to Rosslare
and Cork, crossings done by IRISH FERRIES.
From Roscoff or Saint-Malo to Cork, BRITTANY
FERRIES.
By sea :
IRISH FERRIES
Holyhead/Dublin,
Pembroke/Rosslare
HOVERSPEED
Calais/Douvre,
Boulogne/Folkestone, Swansea/Cork
NORTH SEA FERRIES
Rotterdam/Hull,
Zeebrugge/Hull
P and O EUROPEAN FERRIES, SALLY FERRIES/OSTENDE
LINES and STENA/SEALINK LINE.
Internal Transport
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Trains and buses :
The capital is connected to most of the
other main towns by a very satisfactory rail
network. To get to Cork from Dublin it takes 2h30.
It takes 3 hours from Dublin to Galway, 2h30
between Dublin and Limerick and 3h20 between Dublin
and Sligo.
The DART is an express train which goes between
Howth, Dublin and Bray on the east coast.
You can get a bus to places where there is no
railway.
If you arrive in Ireland at Rosslare you can get to
Galway with an express bus line.
In big towns like Dublin,
Cork, Galway and Limerick the taxis are all
equipped with meters, the starting charge is
£1.80.
Internal airlines :
There are regular flights between Dublin,
Shannon, Cork, Connacht/Knock, Sligo, Galway and
Killarney.
There are also regular flights from Galway to
Inishmore on the Aran Islands.
Maritime transport :
There are three ferry boats going between the
counties, they make the trip much shorter by
crossing a river estuary. The first one crosses the
Shannon between Tarbet which is in the south and
Killimer in the north. The second one crosses the
Waterford estuary between Ballyhack in the east and
Passage East in the west. The third one goes
between East Ferry and Passage West in the county
of Cork.
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