Ireland travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Ireland, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Ireland: Cliffs of Moher & the Burren, Dublin, Galway, Killarney & the Ring of Kerry, Cork & Kinsale.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Tetanus up to date
Emergency number
112 or 999
Care for visitors
Good and affordable
Good, and free at the point of use in an emergency for EU and UK visitors. Non-emergency GP visits are paid and cost €50–70. Waiting times in public emergency departments are long and well documented.
Nothing to plan around. The weather is what catches people: hypothermia on coastal walks in what looked like a mild day, and the Cliffs of Moher in wind.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Ireland
Cliffs of Moher & the BurrenIrelandTwo hundred metres of sheer Atlantic cliff, and behind them a limestone desert with Mediterranean flowers in it
DublinIrelandA small capital with a very large literature, and a pub for every page of it
GalwayIrelandA small city that plays music every night of the week, on the edge of the wildest coast in Ireland
Killarney & the Ring of KerryIrelandLakes under sandstone mountains, a national park you can walk into from the town, and the most driven road in Ireland around it
Cork & KinsaleIrelandIreland's second city, built on an island in a river, with a food town and a harbour twenty minutes away