KILLYBEGS, IRELAND - The people we met while eating lunch in this neat little seaport town, where the fish we were enjoying came off one of the trawlers tied up at the busy dock just a few hours earlier, told us the history of Killybegs.

GLENDALOUGH, IRELAND - You don’t have to go far in Ireland to see ancient ruins.  But you will have to go a bit out of your way if you want to see the most impressive – monastic ruins that date back to the sixth century and are located in this backwater hamlet.

ENNISKERRY, IRELAND - A little West Highland Terrier greeted us at the entrance of Powerscourt with a chorus of barks.  “Don’t mind Muffy,” said a lady chasing after the little white terror. “She won’t hurt you – she’ll just bark you to death.”

DUBLIN, IRELAND - The one-time Dublin haunts of legendary writers are not what the younger travel generation comes to Ireland’s capital for these days.