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Ireland's best beach?

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  • #32
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,192 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Inch Beach and Banna Beach for me,


  • #33
    sheesh
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    inch beach in Kerry is lovely and has a bar on it


  • #34
    darkpagandeath
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    The rocks around Dalkey are not to bad ... :pac: or killiney beach/white rock


  • #35
    biko
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    Is this one of those trick questions where the OP asks for "Ireland's best beach?" but really mean "Dublin's best beach?" ?


  • #36
    doc_17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,033 ✭✭✭doc_17


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    Silver Strand

    The Silver Strand in Donegal? Absolutely stunning!


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  • #37
    Duff
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    Banna beach in Kerry. Manys an evening spent there when I lived in Tralee.


  • #38
    beano345
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    Rush north county Dublin,you got a choice of two beaches


  • #39
    HeidiHeidi
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    YouTookMyName wrote: »
    Bertra

    Was that not destroyed in the storms earlier in the year? Or have they put it back together already?

    Donegal has the most amazing beaches - not sure about swimming though, and definitely no bars within walking distance!

    Enniscrone would meet your criteria, I reckon - the Pilot Bar a five minute walk off the beach, has class food and even classer pints. Lovely beach for swimming on and even better for walking on. Just keep looking out at Kilalla Bay though, and not back at the town which is a bit of a mess.

    And it's a lot handier to get to than west Kerry!


  • #40
    YFlyer
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    Poor Man's Kilkee


  • #41
    Frosty McSnowballs
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    mauzo! wrote: »
    Ill get slated for this, but I love Bray in the evenings. Love stone beaches, loads of lights to see when you go nice and high :)

    Nice pun!

    Killiney / Silver Strand / Gormanston / Brittas Bay are really the only beaches iv spent any time at......I'm going to say Gormanston for me.


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  • #42
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Carne Beach, Co. Wexford.
    Granted it was quite a few years ago (so might have changed) but I remember the sand was too hot to walk on and the water was almost turqoise! Beautiful. :)


  • #43
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    Larianne wrote: »
    Carne Beach, Co. Wexford.
    Granted it was quite a few years ago (so might have changed) but I remember the sand was too hot to walk on and the water was almost turqoise! Beautiful. :)

    Lovely beach but have they cleaned the dirty stream from the pipe thats enters it


  • #44
    Santa Cruz
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    Carrowmore beach outside Louisburgh. Sunny day, Croagh Patrick over your shoulder overlooking Clew Bay. Beautiful


  • #45
    Stavros Murphy
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    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    The rocks around Dalkey are not to bad ... :pac: or killiney beach/white rock

    Spent a lot of my childhood swimming and messing on white-rock beach, little bit of heaven. The stairs down, not so much.


  • #46
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    I know of the best beach in Dublin but I'm sayin' nothin'. Not too far to bars too.


  • #47
    byhookorbycrook
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    Ventry beach, Co Kerry.


  • #48
    FairytaleGirl
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    Portrush and portStewart are beautiful beaches. Pity its rarely warm enough to enjoy!


  • #49
    sheesh
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    Karl Stein wrote: »
    Brandon Bay.

    fantastic pic karl. yours?


  • #50
    ted1
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    Rossnowlagh would be on my list. As would the beaches around Belmullet.
    http://www.guide-to-ireland.com/beaches_in_ireland.php


  • #51
    Zamboni
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    Portsalon, Donegal


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  • #52
    orangesoda
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    I liked Cushendun beach in Antrim, there is a hurling field infront of it and you can see the coast of Scotland.

    I remember being on a beach in Donegal and there was not a soul near it, not even a house, can't remember the name of it.


  • #53
    jake66
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    Cahore, Co.Wexford.
    You can walk for miles...if you feel like it.
    Or go crab fishing on the pier..


  • #54
    HeidiHeidi
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    orangesoda wrote: »
    I liked Cushendun beach in Antrim, there is a hurling field infront of it and you can see the coast of Scotland.

    I remember being on a beach in Donegal and there was not a soul near it, not even a house, can't remember the name of it.

    There's probably loads of them in Donegal, but the beaches in Ards Forest Park (which I was in for the first time lately - how did I not know about it until now :eek:) would qualify. Seriously beauuutiful.


  • #55
    Zed Bank
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    I can't believe Tramore hasn't been mentioned yet.


  • #56
    Lucyfur
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    Rossnowlagh.

    A surf or a walk, followed by a pint of guinness and a bowl of seafood chowder in Smugglers Creek.

    Bliss.


  • #57
    maryishere
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    Many nice beaches on the west coast, my favourites are in Sligo, Mayo, Clare and Kerry.


  • #58
    grenache
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    For a start OP, you can ignore the east coast beaches - couple of alright ones in Wexford but most are just glorified coves or strands. Not proper beaches.

    Head to the west coast, Kerry, Clare, Mayo, Sligo, Donegal.

    I nominate Ballybunion in North Kerry. Stunning cliffs overlook two strands, separated by equally stunning castle ruins in between. Very good currents for surfing too.


  • #59
    oldyouth
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    castletownman wrote: »
    Curracloe Beach.

    Sure they re-enacted the D-Day landings from Saving Private Ryan there so it must be at least as good as the French coast.

    It wasn't exactly Curracloe Beach where that was filmed. Locals know where the beautiful beach actually was, but we like to let the Dubs enjoy their run out in the fresh air ;)


  • #60
    Salmon Leap
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    Another vote for Rossnowlagh here! :)


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  • #61
    Colser
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    Inchadoney beach in West Cork...love it..


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