Staying with Conor was a very pleasant experience. Conor was very welcoming and had some good advice on which places to visit, and which places were so called 'tourist traps'. Overall Conor came across as very genuine and sociable. We stayed for 5 night and bought a so called Leap Visitor Card for seven days at the Spar shop at Dublin airport, this is very handy and, if you use public transport often (we did so about every day) quite worth the price, it includes the Airlink bus from and to the airport, the busses, trains and trams in the Dublin area. You can also buy a 1 and 3 day, cheaper version of the leap card if you're staying just a couple of days. I very much recommend a visit to Howth (use the leap visitor card!) if you're staying for several days and enjoy a very nice walk along the east coast cliffs. We also did a day tour to the Wicklow mountains which was beautiful! We were lucky with the weather though. In Dublin itself I would recommend visiting the Kilmainham Gaol and the Teeling Distillery.