15 mid-term family day trips to book now that everyone will love

From Wild Lights at the zoo to spooky walks at Fota, Orla Neligan has activities to keep kids entertained

1. Zipit Forest Adventure, Farran Woods, Co Cork

Ever zipped through a canopy of trees on a wire? It’s all about navigating (and occasionally dangling) between trees along an elaborate elevated playground via vertiginous tree-bridges and zip wires. The circuits range from 1m-20m high. Farran Woods in Cork is a beauty spot in itself on the shores of Inniscarra lake with a large pond, home to geese and ducks, and a wildlife enclosure housing red and fallow deer, all of which you get a birds eye view of from the treetops.