Brief Introduction Capital: Dublin Area: total: 70282 km National Flower: Shamrock The important Festival: National day: 17 March Population: 3700,000 Language: English is the language generally used, Irish (Gaelic) spoken mainly in areas located along the western seaboard. Currency: euro

Ireland

Geography

Western Europe, occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain .

Administrative divisions

26 counties; Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow .

Economy – overview

Ireland has a mixed economy. The constitution provides that the state shall favor private initiative in industry and commerce, but the state may provide essential services and promote development projects in the absence of private initiatives. Thus, state-sponsored (“semi-state”) bodies operate the country's rail and road transport, some of its television and radio stations, its electricity generation and distribution system, and its peat industry. State companies also are active in the fields of air transport and health insurance. The advent of a single European market in the 1990s encouraged many of these enterprises to privatize and become more competitive.

Culture and media

Newspaper:

Ireland on Sunday，An Phoblacht / Republican News，Irish Farmers Journal，Irish Independent，People Newspapers，Saoirse/Irish Freedom ，Socialist Worker .

Broadcast: RTÉ , Clare fm , 103 fm , 96 fm , 98 fm , Phantom fm , Galway Bay FM .

The place of interest

Dublin Castle

Guinness Storehouse

Phoenix Park