Language Immersion Stay at Mairead's

Our days in Summer can vary as it's a busy household. We usually get up at 8:30 am/9 am, depending on what's happening & the weather!!! We have breakfast. A traditional Irish breakfast could be porridge or boxty or scrambled eggs and French toast, fry up on Sundays or whatever your preference is. All our meals are home-cooked and vary from day to day.. Irish Stew/ Chicken casserole/ Roast beef/ Spaghetti Bolognese/ Curry/ etc.

You can go for walks/cycle or play football in the back garden. We live in a rural but residential area with beautiful views of the landscape. We have optional English lessons Mon-Fri (Fees in profile). They further help linguistic immersion and the student gets one-to-one tuition and a great diversity of topics are covered.

We like walking … “The Mall” which is our local Park... beautiful amenity where Brendan and I run and walk and it has soccer pitches too and a swimming pool/basketball courts. Also, the North Commons on the banks of Lough Ree is very beautiful. You can cycle and explore the local area.

There are options for other activities during your stay too (Fees for these):
1) You can visit Dublin City, be introduced to all its cultural/social history and places of interest on an open-top bus/ hop on or off as you wish.

2) Go-karting in Carrick on Shannon where you get a personal timesheet on how you performed, and they have a pretty good track too!

3) Trip to the Aran Islands. Day starts at 6:30 am. Drive 130 km to Galway city, then to the ferry port, take the ferry to Inis Mór, hire bicycles, guided tour of the island, see the seal colony, the fabulous cliffs of Dun Aenghusa, Kilmurvey beach, have picnic lunch, return ferry, dinner and return journey @9:15 pm.....(Jun/July/ only).

4) If you like a challenge of your stamina, determination, and strength, a trip to Zip It in Lough Key Forest Park is a must... You spend the afternoon ziplining through trees in the forest to overcome the obstacle course.. each course getting harder!!

5) Maybe you like canoeing or kayaking or bank jumping at Rooskey Adventure Centre.

6) Or a trip to the local cinema, but Netflix and popcorn for free at home is a good choice too!

7) We pay a visit to Cavan Museum where you can witness the cultural/social/political past of rural Ireland and even real-life trenches from WW2/no man's land, depicting the conditions the allies lived in.

8) A trip to Croke Park to see one of Ireland's traditional games, Gaelic or Hurling being played to the roar of an 85,000-seater stadium.

9) The Mall gym is also a very good idea if you like fitness...... gym, pool/sauna/steam room. 15 yrs+. We have other activities listed also on our profile.

If you are at university, you can come and partake in a work experience activity & do a course of English lessons with Brendan. That's us!! We look forward to having you in our family. ☘☘