Is Malahide, Ireland commutable to Trinity College Dublin? (country, place, train)

[mommie2mine]

OMG!!! I am so glad that I found this thread..I will be moving to Ireland in December to begin my studies at the American College of Dublin in January 2013..I will be flying to Ireland this summer for about three weeks to try and get some what familiar to the area and everything else..I do have 2 small children coming with me..My daughter will be 3 almost 4 so I will need a creche for her and my son will be 7 and he will be in the 1st grade so of course I would need to be close to a school as well..I have been searching the internet but it is so confusing to me because although I have visited 11 countries total so far and lived in 4 of them I have never been to Ireland..I would also love to start learning the language now so that I can at least try to speak the native language when I get there..I found that when I lived in Germany people loved the fact that I even attempted to speak German and it made them alot more open to me. I dont want to have a long commute to school each day but I dont want to live in the city either..Please I am open to all suggestions so that I can start searching and be ready for my summer visit..Thank you all in advance and I look forward to hearing from yall really soon.

[clongirl]

Originally Posted by mommie2mine

OMG!!! I am so glad that I found this thread..I will be moving to Ireland in December to begin my studies at the American College of Dublin in January 2013..I will be flying to Ireland this summer for about three weeks to try and get some what familiar to the area and everything else..I do have 2 small children coming with me..My daughter will be 3 almost 4 so I will need a creche for her and my son will be 7 and he will be in the 1st grade so of course I would need to be close to a school as well..I have been searching the internet but it is so confusing to me because although I have visited 11 countries total so far and lived in 4 of them I have never been to Ireland..I would also love to start learning the language now so that I can at least try to speak the native language when I get there..I found that when I lived in Germany people loved the fact that I even attempted to speak German and it made them alot more open to me. I dont want to have a long commute to school each day but I dont want to live in the city either..Please I am open to all suggestions so that I can start searching and be ready for my summer visit..Thank you all in advance and I look forward to hearing from yall really soon.

English is spoken in Ireland.

[mommie2mine]

lol yeah i saw that as I was continuing to research...

[JD47john]

I live in Dublin and will tell you anything you need to know. Just ask. Malahide is in North Dublin and a few miles out of the city center. You can get the Dart and that will bring you into town and you can get off at Tara Street and walk then down to Trinity. Its about a 5 minute walk or so. Or you could get the 128 bus from Malahide to Trinity. Hope this helps. Look it up on Google Maps and go to the Dublin Bus and Dart websites to get more info.

[JD47john]

Originally Posted by clongirl

English is spoken in Ireland.

So is Irish.

[JD47john]

Originally Posted by mommie2mine

OMG!!! I am so glad that I found this thread..I will be moving to Ireland in December to begin my studies at the American College of Dublin in January 2013..I will be flying to Ireland this summer for about three weeks to try and get some what familiar to the area and everything else..I do have 2 small children coming with me..My daughter will be 3 almost 4 so I will need a creche for her and my son will be 7 and he will be in the 1st grade so of course I would need to be close to a school as well..I have been searching the internet but it is so confusing to me because although I have visited 11 countries total so far and lived in 4 of them I have never been to Ireland..I would also love to start learning the language now so that I can at least try to speak the native language when I get there..I found that when I lived in Germany people loved the fact that I even attempted to speak German and it made them alot more open to me. I dont want to have a long commute to school each day but I dont want to live in the city either..Please I am open to all suggestions so that I can start searching and be ready for my summer visit..Thank you all in advance and I look forward to hearing from yall really soon.

Hello. Any questions you have about Dublin feel free to ask. Well if you want your kids to learn the Irish language then put them in an Irish school. There is a good one down by Island Bridge and there is nice apartments there too and the Pheonix Park is right beside it and the Memorial Park with the River Liffey running through it. Its also on the edge of the city center too. You could move out to the suburbs and will have easy access into the city center and schools. You should live close to main routes like the N4 and M50 as the M4 has a lot of buses going in and out of the city if you dont drive. The M50 is Dublins main motorway along with the nations mane one and that will get you from one end of the city to the other end. I hope this helps and good luck and enjoy Ireland.

[clongirl]

Originally Posted by JD47john

So is Irish.

Then you should know that the poster needn't learn Irish to be able to communicate in Ireland....even in the Gaeltacht.

On a side note, my kids all attended a Gaelscoil and caught on fairly quickly..took about a year or so... if the OP wanted to look into this for her own kids.

[JD47john]

Originally Posted by clongirl

Then you should know that the poster needn't learn Irish to be able to communicate in Ireland....even in the Gaeltacht.

On a side note, my kids all attended a Gaelscoil and caught on fairly quickly..took about a year or so... if the OP wanted to look into this for her own kids.

Alright sorry I thouht you ment that Irish was'nt spoken at all.

[mommie2mine]

Thank you I think I want to live out of the city from what I have been researching it cost less to live out and commute in..I also want to send the kids to an Irish school so that they can get much more out of this stay in ireland..Do you have any suggestions of good areas and places that we can look into staying that has schools in the immediate area and all of that

[mommie2mine]

maybe even in walking distance to the American College of Dublin..I dont mind a 30 min walk but that is the maximum amount Id want to walk