Day 1

Arrive Dublin Airport where you will be met by your guide. Transfer from the airport to your city centre hotel.  

Dublin has long been a centre of art and culture. Stroll through the elegant Georgian streets of Merrion and Fitzwilliam Squares, shop in the elegant emporiums of Grafton Street and Powerscourt Townhouse, explore the collections of the National Museum and National Gallery, the Chester Beatty Collection of Oriental Art, and many fine small private collections. The range of art and artifacts is enormous, and you will have no problem spending many hours enthralled.. The city is over a thousand years old, and many of the towns and settlements that surround it are equally ancient. Successive centuries have left their distinctive overlays of character and architecture which means that Dublin has a wealth of historically significant and fascinating sights to explore such as Dublin Castle, where the Normans ruled from the 12^th Century, St Patrick's Cathedral, of which Jonathan Swift was Dean, and Trinity College, famous for The Book of Kells and for its alumni who include Oscar Wilde and the 18th Century poet and dramatist Oliver Goldsmith. And no visit to Dublin could be complete without visiting either the Old Whiskey Distillery or the Guinness Storehouse!

Overview familiarization tour of Dublin on the way into your hotel.   This evening you will enjoy a wild hooley night, dinner and entertainment in a traditional Irish pub, followed by dinner.  Situated in the scenic Dublin Mountains, just a stone’s throw away from South Dublin, Johnnie Fox’s is the archetypal `Irish pub.’ A warren of rooms within a rambling, white-washed 18th-century building have sawdust-covered flagstone floors, rustic wooden tables, fragrant peat and log fires, and numerous crannies, shelves, and cupboards stuffed with farm tools, books, bottles, signs, and other bric-a-brac. The menu features Irish specialties like colcannon soup, and Irish fillet steak, but favours seafood: Asian-style mahi mahi ‘Diablo’; shellfish delight with lobster, crab, mussels, prawns and smoked salmon; seafood jambalaya; & pan-fried scallops.  Overnight at The Four Seasons 

This Morning a workshop on Ireland hosted by the IDA/ Enterprise Ireland.  Lunch at leisure followed by a  tour of the centre of ancient Dublin, visiting the Georgian Squares, St Patrick's Cathedral, Trinity College, with the famous Book of Kells, the pre-historic gold at the National Museum,  and finishing with a welcome Irish whiskey tasting reception where you will sample 3 different Irish Whiskeys against Scotch and Bourbon, discover the history of Irish Whiskey and the differences between each whisk(e)y, and receive your Whiskey Tasting Certificate.   As an alternative Golf can be arranged at a nearby championship course.  There will also be shopping time today.  This evening membership of a private casino is available.

Overnight at The Four Seasons.  

Day 3

Morning IT workshops. Leave Dublin for Glenroe Farm in the picturesque village of Kilcoole. The farm offers close and easy access to a terrific selection of animals -- horses, deer, goats, sheep, donkeys, cattle, pigs, ducks, geese, turkeys, hens, rabbits, cats, gerbils, chipmunks, guinea pigs, hamsters and peacocks. A small aviary housing fan-tail doves is also on display. Lunch here. After lunch on to Powerscourt, one of the World's Great Gardens. It is a sublime blend of formal gardens, sweeping terraces, statuary and ornamental lakes together with secret hollows, rambling walks and over 200 varieties of trees and shrubs. The 18th Century Palladian House now incorporates an innovative shopping experience, terrace cafe and house exhibition. Facilities include specialty shops, interiors gallery, & garden pavilion.  On to Glendalough. This early Christian monastic site was founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century. Set in a glaciated valley with two lakes, the monastic remains include a superb round tower, stone churches and decorated crosses.  Overnight at The Four Seasons .

Optional afternoon activity Play The Druid's Glen Golf course

Day 4

Depart Hotel for Belfast.  Visit Newgrange.  The Visitor Centre interprets the Neolithic monuments of Newgrange, Knowth and Downth. The extensive exhibition includes a full scale replica of the chamber at Newgrange as well as fully model of one of the smaller tombs at Knowth. - Stroll through the Victorian streets of Belfast including The Old Town, Titanic Trail,  and the City Centre Walk.  Lunch with Invest Northern Ireland.  Return to The Four Seasons.

Day 5 

Depart Dublin for Galway.  IT hosted lunch in Galway followed by time to explore the city and shop. Galway, the city of the tribes, is one of the fastest growing cities in Europe. The city grew from a small fishing village. In 1235, the Anglo Normans had captured the fort of the Galway chieftains, and built a strong castle, around which the medieval settlement grew. The walling of the city started in 1270, and the city grew as a merchant city. It's wealth was created by 14 merchant families, who later became known as the 14 Tribes of Galway. During the first half of the 17th century, it was a well built city, however, two seiges by the Cromwellian and the Williamite forces saw the fall of the city. The Tribes went into exile, and it is only today that a real revival of the city is evident. Today it is a city known for it's love of the arts and culture.  Overnight at The G, Irelands newest 5* hotel.  Chinese Irish dinner at a private medieval castle

First to the Cliffs of Moher and then across the Burren, a wild lunar like landscape famed for its remarkable flora and its prehistoric sites - strange stone monuments to a lost civilization. Depart Shannon Airport.