Three days, one part of the city each: Trinity, Grafton Street and the free museums around the Green; Guinness, Kilmainham and the Liberties; then the Howth cliffs by DART and the Docklands. A pub with music every night, none of them in Temple Bar.
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Checked October 10, 2026. That’s the day we last confirmed the hours, prices and closed days.
May to September for the long evenings; it is light until after 9:30 p.m. in June. It rains on about 137 days a year, mostly in short showers, so there is no dry month; October and November are the wettest. July highs are around 66°F (19°C), January around 46°F (8°C). TradFest fills the pubs in the third week of January; St Patrick's week (mid-March) doubles hotel prices.
Between Grafton Street and Dame Street for everything on foot. Portobello or Camden Street for canal walks and the best cheap dinners, ten minutes south. Smithfield or Stoneybatter for lower prices and the Cobblestone on your corner. Temple Bar is loud until 3 a.m.; look at it, do not sleep in it.
Walk; the center is two kilometers across. For the rest, a Leap Visitor Card (€8 for 1 day, €18 for 3, €24 for 7) covers Dublin Bus, Luas and the DART in the city zone, Howth included; buy it at the airport (WHSmith in Terminal 1 has only the 1-day card, Spar in Terminal 2 has all three). A standard Leap Card charges a €2 fare good for 90 minutes across bus, tram and train and caps at €6 a day, which comes to the same. The Red Luas line runs Smithfield to the Guinness Storehouse (James's) and Kilmainham (Suir Road).
College Green · 90 min
Timed entry, book online; the first slot of the day has the Long Room almost to itself. Most of the Long Room's books are off the shelves for the restoration (the first four bays remain), so the Red Pavilion's digital show now does the explaining.
€25
Grafton Street · 60 min
Buskers at the Trinity end, Brown Thomas halfway, then duck west into South William Street and the Powerscourt Townhouse courtyard for the small shops.
South William Street · 60 min
A tea room on the first-floor balcony of the Georgian townhouse; a sandwich from the board and a scone, everything baked downstairs. The kitchen closes an hour before the café, so eat early rather than late.
St Stephen's Green · 45 min
In through the Fusiliers' Arch at the top of Grafton Street, round the lake and out the east side onto Merrion Row. Twenty minutes if it is dry; skip it if it is not.
Merrion Square · 105 min
Both free and five minutes apart: the Gallery on Merrion Square West for Caravaggio's Taking of Christ and the Yeats room, the Museum on Kildare Street for the bog bodies and the Tara Brooch. Hours are in the tips.
St Stephen's Green · 75 min
Joyce's first copy of Ulysses, the garden and a quiet café, in the old university buildings on the south side of the Green. Last admission is 4 p.m., so this is the stop to drop if the Gallery runs long.
€16.50
Ormond Quay · 90 min
Irish cooking over the bookshop on Lower Ormond Quay, across the Ha'penny Bridge from Temple Bar; the smoked haddock or whatever lamb is on. Book online; dinner runs until 9 p.m. Sunday to Wednesday and 10 p.m. the rest of the week.
Merrion Row · 90 min
The pub the Dubliners started in; trad music nightly, from 8 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Friday, 5:30 p.m. Saturday and all day Sunday. Stand where you can, order at the bar, and do not tip there.
St James's Gate · 105 min
Book the first slot online: prices move with demand (from around €26 midweek, more at weekends and in summer) and the morning is cheapest and quietest. Seven floors up to the pint in the Gravity Bar; the Luas Red line's James's stop is five minutes away.
€26
Kilmainham · 90 min
Guided tour only, about an hour, and it books out: tickets go on sale 28 days ahead at midnight Irish time, with a few more released at 9:15 a.m. on the day. It is 25 minutes on foot from the Storehouse, or two Luas stops to Suir Road.
€8
Christchurch · 45 min
Fish and chips from the 1913 original on Werburgh Street, takeout only, open from noon; eat them on the wall by the cathedral. Bus 123 back along James's Street and Thomas Street takes ten minutes.
The Liberties · 75 min
Down Patrick Street to the cathedral (€11.50, open to 5 p.m. on weekdays) and its park, Marsh's Library beside it, then back up through the old market streets. Swift is buried in the cathedral and his epitaph is worth the admission.
€11.50
Christchurch · 60 min
The crypt is the point: Strongbow's tomb, the Treasures exhibition and the mummified cat and rat. Last admission 45 minutes before closing, which is 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday and 6 p.m. the other weekdays; Sunday is services until 4:30 p.m..
€11.50
Dame Street · 30 min
The whole campus, courtyards and gardens included, is shut to the public for the rest of 2026 while Ireland hosts the EU presidency; it reopens in January 2027. Walk past the gates along Dame Street and give the hour to the cathedrals, or to the Little Museum of Dublin on the Green.
Merrion Square · 60 min
Oscar Wilde on his rock in the square's corner, the Georgian doors along Fitzwilliam Street and Upper Mount Street, the long view to the Pepper Canister church. Government Buildings and Leinster House are on the Merrion Street side.
Merrion Row · 90 min
A small room with a short Italian-leaning menu that changes with the fish; book, and note it is closed on Sunday and bank holidays.
Baggot Street · 75 min
Toners or Doheny and Nesbitt, both Victorian, both a minute from Etto: snugs, politicians and a pint that is not a show. Last orders are 11:30 p.m. on weekdays and half past midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Connolly · 45 min
About half an hour from Connolly, Tara Street or Pearse along the bay; trains every 15 to 20 minutes and the Leap Visitor Card covers it. In rain or high wind, take the Luas Red line to Heuston instead and walk up Parkgate Street into the Phoenix Park.
Howth · 120 min
From the station, east along the harbor and up onto the cliff path: the green-arrow loop is about six kilometers and two hours, with the Baily lighthouse and Dublin Bay below. In the Park, the free visitor center at Ashtown Castle (9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and the deer on the Fifteen Acres.
Howth · 60 min
Fish and chips from the fishing family on the harbor front; the fish came off the boats a few hundred meters away. On the Park day, eat at the café by Ashtown Castle, or hold out for Smithfield.
Connolly · 45 min
Sit on the left for the bay. From Connolly it is ten minutes on foot down to the river and the CHQ building.
Custom House Quay · 90 min
Twenty rooms in the vaults of the CHQ building tell the story of the ten million people who left Ireland, and you can look up your own family name at the end. Last admission is 5 p.m.; booking 30 days ahead takes 20 percent off (€17.60).
€22
North quays · 75 min
The Famine Memorial figures outside EPIC, the Jeanie Johnston tall ship from the quayside, then the Luas Red line from Busáras to Smithfield, or forty minutes on foot along the north quays past the Custom House and the Four Courts.
Smithfield · 90 min
Beer-battered fish from a daily-changing board and a wine list that takes it seriously; small, so book. Open 4 to 9 p.m. every evening.
Smithfield · 120 min
Two minutes away on King Street North, with musicians in the front bar every night (from 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Monday, mid-afternoon at weekends), no stage and no cover. Keep your voice down near the players.
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From Dublin Airport, the Dublin Express coach (from €9 online, every few minutes, around 30 minutes) stops at the quays, Trinity College and Heuston; Aircoach is similar at around €10. Dublin Bus routes 16 and 41 cost the €2 Leap fare but take an hour. There is no rail link. A taxi to the center is roughly €30 to €40.
About €90 to €140 a day per person. Fish and chips or a café lunch is €12 to €18, a dinner with a glass of wine €40 to €60, a pint around €7 in the center. Tickets are the big line: the Book of Kells, Guinness and EPIC together are over €70, while the Gallery, the Museum, the Green and the cliff walk are free. Transit is €6 a day at most.
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If you ride twice a day or more, yes: €18 for three days, and the Howth DART and the airport Dublin Bus routes are included. A plain Leap Card caps at €6 a day, which is the same money with more topping up. The airport coaches are separate either way.
Day 1: the Book of Kells, the Gallery, the Museum and MoLI are all indoors and within ten minutes of each other. On day 3, swap Howth for EPIC in the morning and the Jameson distillery in Smithfield after lunch; Waystop's Chat can add that as a rain plan you switch to from the day's menu.
Walk through it once in daylight for the lanes and the Temple Bar pub's facade. Pints there run several euro above the rest of the city and the music is for the crowd; O'Donoghue's and the Cobblestone are the real thing.
Yes. Tickets are timed and priced by demand, so the first morning slot midweek is both the cheapest and the emptiest. Last admission is around 5 p.m..
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