Diary Dublin, Kilkenny Cork

Arrived in Ireland to see people in airport watching the Royal Wedding then by the time we had picked up our brand new Citroen Hertz rental car and found our hotel we were sitting down to lunch in the next door hotel and on the big TV there Kate and William came out on Buckingham Palace balcony to wave at the hoards. There might be more people there than there were at the Vatican for the Pope's Easter blessing.
Took a bus into O'Connell Street but they only take coins on the bus and we have just used all ours for the tip for lunch so we got the ride for free. The bus driver said take a seat and ask others for change. I did ask one older couple but they had the same problem. When we got off the driver said to remember to have coins next time. Then got the hop on hop off bus to see the sites. Every time the bus stopped and the driver stopped his narrative Irish music came on. Didn't know I knew so many Irish tunes. Saw where U2 has a penthouse across the river from Jameson's Distillery near Arran quay.
A leprechaun is a pixie and a cobbler to the fairies.
On the bus back to our hotel our driver was something like what I imagine a typical Irishman to be. He called out to men he knew on the footpath exchanging friendly insults such as "You're always in the pub!" and to another bus driver going past he called something like "I'm finding this new 6 hour shift very hard". Paul saw him carrying out his ablutions at the lights. He cleaned the steering wheel, his face and hands with wipes then got out his deodorant.
We looked at maps and decided to take the long way to Limerick in the car via Kilkenny and Cork. Stopped at Kilkenny for a new suitcase to replace Paul's with the broken wheel and lunch at an old pub with Smthwicks superior Irish ale since 1710. The publican expressed his frustration to me that both the tvs have gone at the same time and there's a big game on (rugby) and the place would be full if only. Delicious meal and real olde worlde fittings including cellar bar with low ceiling and more rooms upstairs from the ground floor where we ate looking over the river through a tiny casement window.
Lovely old town with narrow roads full to busting with cars because it is Bank holiday weekend and nice weather.
Cork was pretty grim really despite the sunshine and glimpses of blue in in the hazey skies. Like Dublin it had a river channel with bridges crossing and roads on each side but nothing to oo and arr to. Carried on to Limerick after a coffee and muffin. I notice that in Ireland they don't have overtaking lanes, instead they have slow traffic lanes. Same but different.
In a tiny village we saw a truck with stainless steel 20 litre kegs on parked blocking one side of main street (main highway) while a man onn the back threw the beer kegs down to another man on the footpath who then put it sidways and rolled it with his foot to a stack against the shop wall.
The countryside is lovely, all rolling grassy fields with a lot of trees. Some ranges usually visible in the distance. It could easily be NZ except that the roads are so good.