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Shamrocker Adventures

Kinlay House Dublin
2/12 Lord Edward Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
+353 (0) 1 672 7651

shamrocker@radicaltravel.com

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100% IRISH!! These are the WORLD FAMOUS Shamrocker Tour Guides.  Highly trained, Highly entertaining, and Highly professional locals who are your historians, comedians, weather forecasters, storytellers & DJ's all rolled into ONE!

Karen (The Wexican)

It's all gravy baby!!  

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!

Laura (Fionuala MacCuaill)

*blinks*

Home Town: Tallafornia
Travelled around: ...places .... seen some stuff! ... broke me guitar! :(
Greatest Achievement:  Being voted best bass guitarist outta 350 musicians (I was the ONLY girl!!)
Favourite Joke: Emm a clean joke eh? 
Favourite Song: That is an unfair question to ask a musician!
Favourite Book: Enders Game / Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Favourite Pub anywhere: I'm Irish!! Need I say more?
No.1 place in the world:  Budapest
No.1 IRISH place : Anywhere on the Dingle Peninsula
Most embarrassing Moment: Oooh I dunno, there's sooo many of them - whilst sleep walking I beat my granny up with a pillow and then chucked all her clothes out the window, twas pouring outside! I still haven't been forgiven!

Kev (The Brain)

Tap, tap shuffle, shuffle...

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)

Polly wants a cracker! 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!)

Jac (Norn Iron Pixie)

Sorry about the door!

Hometown: Good Auld Derry City
Travelled around: Australia, New Zealand, South and Central America...
Greatest Achievement: Jumping outta a plane at 13,ooo feet without wetting me-self! Woohoo go me!
Favourite joke: Oooh it's good one, but you'll have to come on tour to hear it cos it just won't work without the actions
Favourite Song: Seven Drunken Nights - it's fan-FECKIN-tastic!
Favourite Book: Matilda - Roald Dahl
Favourite Pub Anywhere: Emmm... oooh.... that's a hard one! I'm thinking it's gotta be Sundowners on Roaten Island, Honduras. It's just like the bar from 'Cocktail' but a squillion times better!!
Favourite IRISH Pub: McQuaids on Rathlin Island
No. 1 place in the world: Buenas Aries
No. 1 IRISH place: What I get to pick just one place!?!! Emmm I'll go with one area instead - the Antrim Coastline is awe-inspiring, you can't narrow it down to just one place
Most Embarrassing Moment: Meeting a boyfriends entire (extended) family after they broke down the door of the toilet I'd managed to lock myself in!

Aidan (Boy Band Reject)

"I'm workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin'..." 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!

Aileen (The Studded Sprite)

Who moved the fecking ground? Home Town: The Royal County of Meath
Travelled around: Australia, Asia, Europe and the U.S. of A
Greatest Achievement: 14,000 foot ski dive - proud of me I tells ye! =)
Favourite Joke: Oooh the one from Pulp Fiction about the tomato family and the ickle baby one having to ketchup
Favourite Song: Potbelleez - Don't hold back
Favourite Book: Harry Potter the first one, and the second one and the third and okay all of them really
Favourite Pub anywhere: Scruffy Murphys in Sydney
Favourite Irish Pub: The Long Stone in the fair city
No.1 place in the world: Sydney Harbour
No.1 IRISH place: The Wicklow Mountains, they are gorgeous altogether!
Most embarrassing moment: Emmm lets leave it at saying a dodgy bottle of wine and the pull of gravity from a top bunk bed! =O

John (Monkey Man)

Home Town: Co. Laois (the sticks)
Travelled around: Europe (climbing and adventuring all the way)
Greatest Achievement: Still being ALIVE! I've had some hairy moments in me time
Favourite Joke: Oooh I love stupid jokes emmm how about - What's pinky and fluffy? ...Pink Fluff!! :) What's blue and fluffy? ... (Blue fluff I hear you say but...) It's pink fluff with hypotermia
Favourite Pub Anywhere: Taffees Castle in Carlingford - those walls hold some secrets!
Favourite IRISH Pub: Anywhere the CRAIC flows as freely as the Guinness
No. 1 Place in the World: Glasgow
No. 1 IRISH Place: Anywhere on the West Coast
Most embarrassing Moment:  :o It involves a hotel room, a bathtub, a mature woman and a cleaning uniform. I'll tell ye the whole story if ye come on tour ...