100% IRISH! These are the WORLD FAMOUS Shamrocker Guides. Highly trained, highly entertaining and highly professional locals who are your historians, comedians, weather forecasters, storytellers & DJ's all rolled into ONE!
Carol
Home Town: Navan, Co. Meath (Hometown of Pierce Brosnan)
Travelled around: Ireland, Iceland, England & Cyprus
Favourite Joke: Wife says to husband “I’ve made the chicken soup” husband says “Thank god I thought it was for me!”
Greatest Achievement: Finishing college with qualifications!!
Favourite Song: Here comes the sun – The Beatles
Favourite Book: The secret
Favourite Pub anywhere: Harvey’s Waterford
Favourite IRISH Pub: Smith’s on the square in Navan
No.1 place in the world: Navan, you never know when Pierce will make an appearance!
No.1 IRISH place: Youghal Co, Cork. Ah the childhood memories!
Most embarrassing Moment: Picture this- a packed take-away restaurant, staying with friends had a pillow & sleeping bag. Sat down while friends order the food, the manager came over to me in front of everybody and proceeded to announce that they did not allow homeless people to stay in the take away!
Karen (Momma Guide extraordinaire)
Nationality / Home Town: Curracloe, Co. Wexford
Travelled around: Australia, New Zealand, parts of America & Germany
Greatest Achievement: Getting a job!!!
Favourite Joke: What do you call a nun wandering around? A Roman Catholic
Favourite Song: With or without U – U2
Favourite Book: Da Vinci Code – Dan Browne
Favourite Pub anywhere: Cock n Bull, County Bondi, Sydney
Favourite IRISH Pub: Dakota, Wexford town.
No.1 place in the world: Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island
No. 1 IRISH place: Cliffs of Moher
Most embarrassing Moment: Too many embarrassing moments to single out just one!
Genna (The Wicklow Rose)
Hometown: Wicklow other wise known as the Garden of Ireland!
Travelled around: Canada, USA & Europe
Greatest Achievement: Finishing College!
Favourite joke: What’s the fastest based food around? A Scone!
Favourite Song: Given to fly by Pearl Jam
Favourite Book: Confessions of a Fallen Angel by Ronan O’Brien
Favourite Pub Anywhere: Cold Springs Tavern, Santa Barbara, California
Favourite IRISH Pub: O’Neill’s Bar, West Cork
No. 1 place in the world: The Rocky Mountains Canada
No. 1 IRISH place: Wicklow!
Most Embarrassing Moment: At a Summer camp I stood up to sing the next verse of the song only to find out that the song has finished, so I was singing on my own while everybody else looked on in silence!
Kev (The Brain)
Home Town: Bray, in Wicklow - the Garden of Ireland
Travelled around: Oz, Asia and South Africa
Greatest Achievement: Being the best (and only) male tap dancer in my school, aged 14. I even have the trophy to prove it! ;)
Favourite Joke: Too dirty to tell, even online!
Favourite Song: Grace, Jeff Buckley
Favourite Book: The Da Vinci Code
Favourite Pub anywhere: Cheers - George Street, Sydney
Favourite IRISH Pub: Too many to mention, but I never say no to another pint!
No.1 place in the world: Fraser Island, Australia
No.1 IRISH place: Wicklow Mountains National Park
Most embarrassing Moment: Choking on a Creme Egg in front of a large audience
Seán (The Songbird)
The Glorified Tree hugger
Hometown: Coill an Rí í Tamhlacht
Travelled around: ... the Emerald Isle (like a hot snot might i add)
Greatest Achievement: My hair! ... Tis long and lovely
Favourite Joke: Did you hear the one about the Brown Paper Cowboy?
.... He was done for rustling (hee hee)
Favourite Song: Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan
Favourite Book: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - by Roddy Doyle
Favourite Pub Anywhere: Anywhere the pints are good enough to make the late Arthur Guinness a proud man!
Favourite IRISH Pub: Tigh Neachtain, Galway
No 1 Place in the World: My bed!!
No 1 IRISH Place: Quay Street, Galway (on a good day tis pure madness)
Most Embarrassing Moment: Topping up my first ever pint of Guinness with the contents of my stomach in front of my barman boss! (hey at least I got it in the glass!)
Lynn (Linn Snámha)
Hometown: Inchicore in the Fair City of Dublin
Travelled around: Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Thailand, South and North America...
Greatest Achievement: Finishing College
Favourite joke: Two sausages in a frying pan, one says to the other "Phew, man it is hot in here!" the other one says "AHHH, a talking sausage"
Favourite Song: The only living boy in New York by Simon & Garfunkal
Favourite Book: The time travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Favourite Pub Anywhere: Elbow Room, San Francisco
Favourite IRISH Pub: The strand, Strandhill Co. Sligo for a post surf pint!
No. 1 place in the world: I've narrowed it down to 3 - Fiji, New Zealand & San Francisco
No. 1 IRISH place: Achill Island & Inis Mór
Most Embarrassing Moment: I lost both my passport and birth certificate on the same day. I had to go to the local Garda Station and explain how I lost my identity. My unsympathetic friends started to call me Glenda because I couldn't prove what my real name was!
Aidan (Baby Bum-fluff Boy)
Home Town: The back streets of Dublin
Travelled around: I've been all over Europe! I've yet to hit anywhere out side of Europe- sure I'm still just a nipper!
Greatest Achievement: Puberty.
Favourite Joke: What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Nacho chees!
Favourite Song: Dolly Parton - 9 to 5. ahh, Dolly's a genius!
Favourite Book: Enid Byton- The Famous Five: Five go to Smuggler's Top. It's a bit of a cliffhanger- I ain't gonna lie to ya!
Favourite Pub anywhere: I can't remember the name of it but it was located in a Belgian town called Leuven and it was across the road from the Stella Artois brewery. nuff said!
Favourite IRISH Pub: Kavanaghs of Stoneybatter- there's nothing like a good local!
No.1 place in the world: At the moment it would have to be Toulouse in France: cracking place with loads to see.
No.1 IRISH place: The Blasket Islands
Most embarrassing Moment: Kicking my shoe over the wall of an army barracks at the age of 18! then going back to the barracks in a different pair of shoes to ask for it back... I blamed it on a younger, 8 year old, brother who wears size 10?! It was all caught on CCTV and the Irish army had a good laugh at my expense!
Joanne Egan (Miss Mojo)
Nationality / Home Town: Boyle (Not the Kettle)
Travelled around: France & US
Greatest Achievement: Finally figuring out that every achievement is a victory of a flaming heart!
Favourite Joke: Mary & Paddy are chatting in a bar, mary says to Paddy "If you were stranded on a desert island and you could have one person with you who would it be? Paddy replies "My Uncle Mick" Mary asks "Why?" and PAddy says "coz he has a boat!"
Favourite Song: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Favourite Book: The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffeneggers
Favourite Pub anywhere: Bogarts Irish Pub, Keywest Florida
Favourite IRISH Pub: Lavin's, Boyle (complete with open fire, stove & resident ghost!)
No.1 place in the world: Snipe;s "Sand bar", Gulf of Mexico
No. 1 IRISH place: Lough Key
Most Embarrassing moment: I'm not in the business of disgracing myself twice now! Come on!