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The best driving routes and destinations across Ireland.
You're two hours into the Highlands, the mountains are doing their thing, and you've just met a Land Rover coming the other way on a road barely wide enough for one of you. Nobody's moving. Someone has to. This is...
Pull over anywhere on the Healy Pass and count the vehicles. On a bright July Saturday, you might see four. Maybe six. Compare that to the Ring of Kerry on the same day, where the N70 turns into a slow-motion parade of...
Every weekend, dozens of people queue for the Howth Cliff Walk trailhead while sitting in a car park they've been circling for twenty minutes. Meanwhile, the same views, plus several better ones, are available from...
You cross the water from Cairnryan thinking it'll be fine. Same left-hand side. Same rain. Sure it's grand. Then a yellow average speed camera sign goes past at 70mph and your stomach drops, because you don't actually...
You've spotted the Christmas market listings, the family's on board, and now someone has to decide: Dublin or Galway. That someone is you, because you're the one holding the car keys. Both cities are doing something...
You've decided Scotland is happening. The car is going. Now someone has to figure out the ferry, and that someone is you, staring at two port options and a suspiciously wide range of prices online. This is what you...
You pull up to the Cork side of the Healy Pass on a Tuesday morning and there is not a tour bus in sight. No queue of campervans. No man in a high-vis waving you into a field for a fiver. Just a road that climbs into...
The sheep won't move. You're in a 2019 Volkswagen Polo with 80,000km on the clock, sitting at 480 metres above sea level on a road the British Army built to keep rebels out of the Wicklow Mountains, and a Cheviot ewe is...
You pull into Naas on a crisp Saturday morning, a new Lexus RX humming quietly beneath you, and the whole of Kildare stretches out ahead. Good roads. Flat plains that open into rolling hills. And from 2027, a reason to...
September lands and suddenly the country looks like someone turned the saturation up. The hedgerows go copper, the mountains go amber, and for about six weeks Ireland is genuinely, objectively stunning. Then November...
There's a lane in North Tipperary that turns amber and rust in October, flanked by old beech trees so dense they form a tunnel. No tourist board sign. No lay-by with an information board. Just road, colour, and the...
You fill up in Newry, the gauge is sitting happy, and somewhere between the Spelga Dam and the back wall of the Mournes you stop thinking about fuel prices entirely. That's the deal Northern Ireland offers. Proper...
The dealer hands you the keys for thirty minutes on a retail park loop and calls it a test drive. Grand. Very helpful. Now try that same car on the N17 in a sidewind with a roof box and three kids arguing about the aux...
Everyone's bumper to bumper behind a tour bus on the N70 right now. Meanwhile, five genuinely brilliant coastal routes are sitting there, quiet, scenic, and kind to your fuel gauge. These aren't obscure tracks that'll...
You pull up to the fast charger in Letterkenny after four hours on the road, battery at 11%, and find a handwritten "Out of Order" note taped to the screen. Welcome to EV road tripping in Ireland. The pitch...
You're packed, the car is loaded, and you're about to board the Rosslare ferry to Cherbourg. Then someone in a high-vis jacket asks for your International Driving Permit and you go completely blank. This is happening....
You pull into a forecourt somewhere outside Athlone, squint at the price board, and do the maths in your head. That's going to cost what? For a full tank? The drive home suddenly feels a lot longer. Fuel prices in...
Your festival bag is packed. The tent is a disaster waiting to happen. And your EV's sat nav is showing 180km of range while Google Maps is saying the campsite is 97km away. Sounds grand. Until you factor in everything...
Your mate just pulled up in a new Hyundai Ioniq 6 and wants to know if you're on for a weekend in Kerry. Grand, you say. Then he mentions it's electric. Suddenly everyone in the group chat goes quiet. Range anxiety is...
You leave Galway city on a wet Tuesday morning with 80% battery, a full tank, and absolutely zero anxiety about where the next charger is. That feeling alone tells you something important about the Avenger 4xe. The...
You've booked the cottage in Kerry. The bags are packed. Now someone at the kitchen table asks the question that starts the argument: "Should we have got an electric?" It's 2026. Fuel prices have been doing...
You've booked the days off. The route is mapped. Wild Atlantic Way, Cliffs of Moher, maybe a loop around the Dingle Peninsula. Then you remember you drive an EV, and suddenly the whole thing feels like a logic puzzle...
Your ferry docks at Cairnryan before 8am. The motorway north is right there, wide and grey and utterly pointless. Don't take it. Scotland has been quietly sitting on some of the best driving roads in Europe while...
You already know the road. You've driven it once, maybe years ago, and you still think about it. The way the tarmac tilted, the view that appeared from nowhere, the moment the car finally had room to breathe. Ireland...
The battery shows 240km of range. Outside, it's seven degrees, raining sideways off the Atlantic, and you're in Ballyvaughan with nowhere to be until Donegal. Two years ago, that sentence would have ended with a rescue...
You budgeted for a summer road trip. You did not budget for a €110 tank of petrol every two days and a diesel that's starting to sound like a bag of spanners on the N15. Enter the Chinese EV. Specifically the Xpeng G6,...
The coach is already there when you arrive. Of course it is. It's 11am in July, you've driven two hours from Cork, and a 53-seater from a German tour operator has claimed the entire lay-by at Moll's Gap like it's...