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Dublin 16, Dublin City

Visitors who enjoy shopping would be well advised to make a stop at the Dundrum Town Centre (353 1 299 1700), a shoppers paradise and winner of the prestigious International shopping centre of the year award. The centre is a mix of retail and entertainment, and includes exclusive flagship stores and high street brands.

Pearse Museum, a former school is worth a visit (353 1 493 6120), which includes exhibitions, a nature study room, an audio visual show and beautiful grounds.

The area also includes one of the Dublin’s most charming parks, St Enda’s park, which offers visitors riverside walks, a waterfall and a walled garden. Golfers can take advantage of the excellent courses that are in the vicinity.

Edmonstown golf club (353 1 493 3152) is a mature parkland course and is used as a qualifying course for the Irish Open. Grange golf club (353 1 493 9490) offers 24 holes on a parkland course and Stackstown golf club (353 1 493 3934) is a parkland course, of 18 holes par 72, located on the foothills of the Dublin Mountains, and is the home club of Padriag Harrington.

Riding enthusiasts will be well looked after at the Paddocks riding centre (353 1 295 4278), which is open all year and offers a cross country course, tuition and trekking.

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Dublin 16

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Gardens

Lodge Park Walled Gardens

Straffan, Co. Kildare

The spicy scent of clipped box, bees drowsy with heat, fruit ripening against sun warmed brick and herbaceous plants pampered into magnificence: Lodge Park has all the magic to be expected of a walled garden and more. Originally dating back t ...

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Golf

Tulfarris Golf Resort

Blessington, Co. Wicklow
Course Type: Parkland

Tulfarris Golf Resort has a par 72 championship parkland 18 hole golf course set on three peninsulas overlooking Blessington Lakes that was designed by Ireland's renowned golf architect, Patrick J. Merrigan. The imaginative use of the natural ...

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Self Catering

Avon Ri Blessington Resort

Blessington, Co. Wicklow

For centuries, the hill where Avon Rí is now located looked out over a valley created by the Liffey and King's River. Avon Rí has taken its name from the latter and now looks out of the Blessington Lakes – a reservoir created ...

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What's On

Portmarnock Market - Co Dublin - Sundays

Portmarnock Market - Sunday 10am-5pm

Portmarnock Golf and Country club, Portmarnock, Co Dublin

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Tourist Attractions

Iveagh Gardens

Dublin 2, Dublin City

Initially laid out as a private pleasure garden by 'Copper-faced Jack', Earl of Clonmell The Iveagh Gardens in their present form were laid out in 1863 by Benjamin Guinness - after he had built what is now Iveagh House on St. Stephen's Green - an ...

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Wedding Venues

Radisson Blu St Helen's Hotel

Dublin 4, Dublin City

Set in four acres of landscaped gardens with views across Dublin Bay to Howth Head, this is one of the capital’s finest hotels and has at its heart a listed building of charm and elegance. It makes a lovely setting for a wedding and, althou ...

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