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Dara McCarthy
Welcome to the website of Dara McCarthy. I am tour guide from Dublin, Ireland and I provide private historical walking and driving tours of my home town and Ireland tours.
I am recommended by Rick Steves, am a licensed tour guide for Dublin from ATGI and you can find my reviews on Tripadvisor.
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dublin tours
I provide private and group walking and driving tours of Dublin, Ireland my home town. If you would like to read up on Dublin itineraries, please click here.
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vatican tours
I was a Vatican tour guide for five years and brought over 40,000 people through the site. I provide a Vatican tour guide service where you can take a tour with one of my licensed tour guides living in Rome.
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rome tours
I have compiled my notes on the attractions of Rome so you can guide yourself around the Eternal City. Alternatively you can book a private walking tour of Rome with one of my guides.
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music
I used to write music from 1996 to 2016 and I have published it online. You are free to listen to and download this music free for non-commercial use.
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As well as providing Dublin Walking Tours, I also give tours of Ireland such as Powerscourt Tour, my Dublin Pub Crawl and a Glendalough Trip.
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If you don’t want a Vatican tour, you can read my articles on the Sistine Chapel, or St. Peters Basilica or St. Peters Dome among other parts of the Vatican.
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Before taking a Rome tour, you can check out my articles on the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, The Pantheon and the other piazzas of the Eternal City.
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Bored? You can read my blog entries, like the time I visited the HBO Rome Set, or my article about the Laocoon.