Six published writers covering every region of Ireland. Local journalists, Irish-born guides, expats, and frequent travelers. Founded in 2013 by Nick Wharton and Dariece Swift. Run today by the team writing the guides.
Irish-born journalists, a Cork travel writer, a Dublin expat, a UCD study-abroad alum, a golf-route specialist, and the two Canadians who started it.
Your Irish Adventure was founded in 2013 by Nick Wharton and Dariece Swift after a six-week road trip turned into a habit. The site is no longer two people. Six writers publish here today: an Irish-born award-winning photographer working as a tour guide, a Cork-born travel journalist published in the Irish Examiner and AFAR, a Maynooth-graduate freelance writer covering Dublin and the North, a Kerry and Galway specialist with five years on the archive, a golf and Where-to-Stay contributor based around the championship courses, and an Irish writer who has lived in four counties and visited twenty-nine. The two founders run editorial.
Our work has been published in Lonely Planet, Forbes, Time, National Geographic, CNN, NBC Today, and Business Insider. When you read a guide here, you are reading from someone who has been to the place.
Our travel writing has run in some of the biggest publications in the world. The Ireland archive on this site is held to the same standard.
Six published writers, 161+ guides on the archive, every region of Ireland. Locals, journalists, expats, and frequent travelers. Tap any name to see their work.
Two Canadians wanted a site dedicated to Ireland. Ten years later it is six writers.
We started travelling full time in 2013 and ran Goats On The Road, the long-form blog where we documented over a decade of trips. Ireland was the country that kept pulling us back. After our first six-week loop we built a dedicated site for it, the one you are on now.
The site outgrew us within a few years. Janet Newenham came on in 2015 to write Cork and Kerry from the inside. Oisin Feeney joined in 2017 and runs the western half of the archive. Conor, Krystianna, Stephen, and Vourneen followed. Today they write most of the new guides while Dariece and I handle editorial. The brief has not changed since day one. Be useful, be honest, only write about places we have actually been.
Best for: Travellers who want a real recommendation, not a top-ten list scraped from someone else.
Three rules we follow on every guide we publish.
If a writer has not been to a place, they do not write a “personal” guide to it. No invented anecdotes, no rented expertise. Every Ireland post on this site is anchored to a real trip the writer took.
Cork posts are written by a Cork-born journalist. Galway and Dublin posts are written by an Irish-born journalist working as a tour guide. Kerry posts are written by a contributor who has been in the county every summer since 2020. Specialism gets matched to coverage.
Hotel rates change. Tours get retired. Roads close. Dariece and I revisit the guides that drive the most traffic at least once a year, with priority on anything price or booking related. Writers also flag their own pieces for review when something on the ground shifts.
Five focus areas. Everything on this site rolls up into one of them.
Province by province, county by county.
OpenBudget B and Bs to castle stays. Booking links you can trust.
OpenThe Wild Atlantic Way and every drive worth doing.
OpenIconic sights, lesser-known towns, islands worth the ferry.
OpenBest time to visit, what to pack, how to drive on the left.
OpenCo-founder and head editor. Works with the team above to keep the archive on brand and on schedule.
I co-founded Your Irish Adventure with Dariece in 2013 after a six-week Ireland road trip turned into a habit. Before that we ran Goats On The Road full time. My writing has been picked up by Forbes, CNN Money, NBC Today, Lonely Planet, and Business Insider.
These days my job on the site is editorial. I commission and edit the writers you just met, drive the routes when we need fresh photos, and write the long-form flagship pieces. I do not pretend to know Galway like Oisin, Cork like Janet, or Kerry like Krystianna. That is why they are here.
If you have a question about an Ireland trip and you cannot find the answer in a guide on this site, email me. I read everything.
Best for: Long-form flagship pieces and editorial direction.
Co-founder. Runs editorial standards across the team and books most of the hotels we test on the road.
I have been writing about travel professionally for over a dozen years. My work has been published in Time, National Geographic, Business Insider, and Lonely Planet. Ireland is the country I keep coming back to because it rewards slow travel more than almost anywhere else.
My job today is editorial standards. I work with our writers before posts go live, plan the route research for flagship guides, and book most of the hotels we test on the road. If you spot a hotel review on this site, there is a good chance I checked us in.
I love the west coast. Slieve League, Connemara, the Iveragh peninsula on a clear day. I prefer a windy headland walk to a tour bus, and pubs over big restaurants.
Best for: Hotel testing and the editorial standard the team writes to.
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