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Important facts

Capital: Dublin (See more on ITYPEJOB.COM)

Official language: English Gaelic

Currency: Euro (exchange rates)

Continent: Northern Europe

Ireland vacation

A holiday in Ireland offers a lot of reason to celebrate. From the seafood in Galway to the wild Halloween nights in Londonderry. The Irish just always party. Visit the Irish Northwest, West, Shannon Region and discover the rich history and idiosyncratic character.

On a last minute Ireland holiday, there are wonderful views, testimonies from prehistoric times, breathtaking beaches and lively shopping streets to be discovered. It’s time to immerse yourself in Ireland’s impressive past with prehistoric cultural monuments and castles and palaces.

According to Countryaah, Ireland is an island nation on the island of the same name, Ireland. It borders the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland Province) to the north and is surrounded by the Irish Sea to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south. Ireland is a member of the European Union.

In addition to music, Guinness and history, Ireland has a rich heritage of national parks, such as Glendalough National Park with its distinctive round towers. These round towers were the monks’ refuge and protection from the plundering Vikings. The name Glendalough is derived from the Irish Gleann Dá Locha and can be translated as “Valley of the Two Lakes”. It is a collection of ruined monasteries in the Irish Wicklow Mountains, around 40 km south of Dublin.

The statue of the fish seller Molly Malone refers to a popular Irish folk song and is an unofficial anthem of the capital Dublin. When visiting Dublin city, a meeting with Molly Malone should be on the agenda. Live music in Irish pubs is a national heritage and has been carried over the generations.

Currency

Currency (sub-unit)

Euro (100 cents)

ISO 4217 code

EUR / 978

Geography

Continent: Europe

Region: North

Geo coordinates: N 53 ° 24 ‘46.5 ” W -8 ° -14’ -38″

Highest mountain: Carrauntohill (1,041 m)

Total area: 70,280 km²

Mainland: 68,890 km²

National border: 360 km

Coastline: 1,448 km

Politics

Dependency: Great Britain until 1922

UN member since: 1955

Other political affiliation: European Union since 1973

Form of government: Parliamentary republic

Houses of Parliament: bikameral

Party system: Multi-party system

State building: centralized

Political culture: Civic culture

Particularities: When elected to the Senate, the number of members of parliament is drawn from certain groups: 11 are nominated by the Prime Minister, 43 representatives are elected by a special electoral body from 5 social groups (culture, agriculture, trade union, industry and administration) and 6 members come from the university sector

Economy

Export goods: Food, textiles

BSP: $ 193.887 billion

GDP: $ 248,797,000,000

GDP purchasing power parity: $ 187 billion

Economic growth: 4.9%

Inflation rate: 2.7%

Unemployment: 4.2%

State budget revenue: $ 4294967295

State budget expenditure: $ 4294967295

National debt: 27.3%

Export: $ 105.3 billion

Import: $ 73,070,000,000

Foreign debt: $ 1,167 billion

Electricity consumption: 24,640 million KWh

Gas reserves: 19,820 million m³

Gas production: 640 million m³

Gas consumption: 4,530 million m³

Oil consumption: 186,000 million m³

Cultivation area: 17.01%

Bovine: 6,271,000 pieces

Pigs: 1,680,000 pieces

Sheep: 4,740,000 pieces

Fishing: 440,000 t

Demographic data

Residents: 4,062,300

Residents in cities: 2,398,000

Minorities: Gael

Average age: 34 years

0-14 years: 20.9%

15-64 years: 67.6%

> 65 years: 11.5%

Population growth: 1.15%

Birth rate: 14.45 / 1,000 residents

Death rate: 7.82 / 1,000 residents

Migration: 4.87 / 1,000 residents

Ratio men / women: 0.99

Fertility: 1.86 children / woman

Infant mortality: 5.31 ‰

Life expectancy men: 75.11 years

Life expectancy women: 80.52 years

Country codes and abbreviations

ISO 3166 Alpha 2: IE

ISO 3166 Alpha 3: IRL

ISO 3166 numeric: 372

Top Level Domain: ie

IOC country code: IRL

UN / LOCODE: IE

Source: Abbreviationfinder

Communication

Telephone connections: 2,199,000

Cell Phones: 3,550,000

Radios: 3,040,000

TV: 3,090,000

Computer: 2,230,000

Internet users: 1,970,000

Transportation

Railway lines: 3,312 km

Paved roads: 96,892 km

of which expressways: 141 km

Cars: 1,690,000

Merchant fleet (ships over 1,000 GRT): 23

Pipelines: 1,795

Health

Number of doctors: 8,980

Daily food intake: 3.710 kcal / resident

HIV- infected people: 3,100

Education

History

Foundation: 432

Last sovereign since: 1922

Religion

Main religious group: Christians

Distribution of religions: Roman Catholic

Crime

Prison inmates: 3,400

Military

Armed forces (troop strength): 11,000

Main battle tank: 14

Warplanes: 10

Helicopter: 15

GETTING THERE

Arriving by plane

The national airline is Aer Lingus (EI) (Internet: www.aerlingus.com). It offers flight connections to Dublin from Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt / M, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna, Salzburg, Geneva and Zurich. In addition, Aer Lingus flies to Cork from Berlin and Munich. Lufthansa (LH), Germanwings (4U) and Swiss (LX) also fly to Ireland.

Austrian myHoliday (OS) connects Vienna and Dublin, among others.

Flight times

Frankfurt – Dublin: 2 hours; Vienna – Dublin: 2 hours 50 minutes; Zurich – Dublin: 2 hours 15 minutes

Arrival by car

Car : There are car ferries between Le Havre / Cherbourg and Ireland. More information from ADAC (Internet: www.adac.de). Good connections from all Irish ports inland.

Long-distance bus: Eurolines buses (Internet: www.eurolines.com) travel to and from the Republic of Ireland. Timetable and tariff information is available from the Irish Eurolines general agency (Bus Eireann, Internet: www.buseireann.ie) or the Eurolines agencies in Germany (Deutsche Touring GmbH, address: Am Römerhof 17, D-60486 Frankfurt / M. Tel: (069) 79 03 50 (Internet:www.deutsche-touring.com), Austria (Eurolines Austria – Blaguss Reisen GmbH, Internet: http://eurolines.blaguss.at/index.php) and Switzerland (Alsa + Eggmann, Internet: www.alsa-eggmann. ch).

Arriving by train

There are daily train connections to the French ferry ports with direct connections to Ireland or via London to the cities of Pembroke, Fishguard, Holyhead and Liverpool with ferry connections to Ireland. Together with Great Britain, Ireland belongs to Zone A of the InterRail zones. Information on train connections to the Irish Republic is available from Deutsche Bahn (Internet: www.bahn.de), ÖBB (Internet: www.oebb.at) and SBB (Internet: www.sbb.ch). Good connections from all Irish ports inland.
InterRail – passes are valid (for details see. Germany).

Arrival by ship

From France:
Irish Ferries (Internet: www.irishferries.com) offer connections between France and Ireland several times a day on the Cherbourg – Rosslare (journey time: 17 hours 30 minutes) and Roscoff – Rosslare (journey time: 19 hours 30 minutes).) at.
Brittany Ferries (Internet: www.brittany-ferries.com) operate the Roscoff – Cork route (14 hours).

From England:
A connection from Liverpool – Dublin (travel time 7 hours 30 minutes) is provided by P&O Ferries (Internet: www.poferries.de).

From Wales:
Irish Ferries (Internet: http://www.irishferries.com/) offer ferry services between Holyhead and Dublin and Pembroke and Rosslare (travel time: 2-4 hours).
The Stena Line (Internet: www.stenaline.co.uk) runs between Holyhead and Dublin (journey time: 3 hours 15 minutes or 1 hour 49 minutes with the high speed service), Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire (journey time: 3 hours 30 minutes or 1 hour 39 minutes with the High Speed Service) as well as Fishguard and Rosslare (travel time: 3 hours 30 minutes or 1 hour 39 minutes with the catamaran).

From Isle of Man:
Douglas – Dublin (travel time: 2 hours 55 minutes) (Internet: www.steam-packet.com).