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!
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!)
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!
John ("Murf") Murphy
Nationality / Home Town: Dromore Co. Tyrone
Travelled around: West Europe, South Africa, Turkey & a bit of the US
Greatest Achievement: Getting my safari guides qualification
Favourite Joke: What’s black and white and eats like a horse? A Zebra
Favourite Song: Everlong – Foo Fighters
Favourite Book: One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Favourite Pub anywhere: The Keg & Dock, Nelsprunt S.A
Favourite IRISH Pub: The Empire Belfast
No.1 place in the world: Kruger Park S.A
No. 1 IRISH place: Glenveagh National Park, Donegal
Most embarrassing Moment: Running full pelt into the back of a parked ambulance, bouncing off and having the paramedics check me out!