Sink a pint and see the sun rise top Ireland’s must-do list

IF you do anything before your time is up then you really must get lost in Connemara and try to see the sun rise on the winter solstice at Newgrange, Co Meath.

And, according to the Rough Guide’s list of 25 must-do things in Ireland and Britain, you also ought to make a beeline for the beehive huts at Co Kerry’s world heritage site at Skellig Michael island, and find time for a pint of Guinness in Dublin.

Yesterday the publishers of the popular and informal Rough Guide travel books launched a slim 80-page volume listing the top attractions here and over at the neighbours’ place.