West coast of Ireland on a low budget

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Me and me and teenage DS would love to visit Ireland ( West coast) and I’m just wondering if it will be possible to do on a budget in the summer holidays? We are in the Highlands of Scotland and love the scenery up here. His school breaks up here on 29th of June so looking at going for a week from then. We would like to drive around and stay in some different budget places if that would be better than staying in the same place for a week?

Im also trying to work out if flying to Cork
or Shannon from Edinburgh would be cheaper and then hiring a car over there or taking the ferry and my own car!

Has anyone got any tips or ideas about accommodation to help me plan this please?

Thanks

If someone is typing in English I would expect them to use the English name for a country. You're not going to refer to Italia when speaking/writing in English.

There are also political connotations to using Éire in English and it can be considered offensive.

If you are coming from Scotland if you do the ferry start in Donegal. Actually just Donegal and Sligo could take a week anyway and would be less expensive than Kerry or Galway.

It's also a lesson in politics. The use of Éire (and Eire particularly) when speaking English is considered offensive due to a long history of how it has been used by British people in the past.

If you are speaking English, the name of the country is Ireland or Republic of Ireland. Éire should only be used when speaking/writing in Irish.

OP could equally have risked getting stick by calling it Ireland, and being officiously told it should be called Eire (with an accent).

My Lovely Man (London Irish) had a trailer in Kerry. It's beautiful there.

Why on earth would she have received stick foot referring to a country by its official name?

Because some people like to nitpick. Like you.

And only an Irish person would bring the politics into a thread about holiday destinations

As a Donegal lass I call it what I want and as a person living in NI with both an Irish and British passport I shall identify as I like

Keep the politics to a relevant thread

Nobody speaking English would officiously say it should be called Éire though (because in English it's not).@OchonAgusOchonOh is right about that.

But not the point of the thread I agree.

Everything is so expensive now, it makes things difficult even without flights and car hire to consider.

@suki1964 I never knew you could use Clubcard vouchers on the ferry, I'm definitely looking into that now!