We also had a nice chat with another hotel guest. He worked at the RAF base on Anglesey Island, and had been to the U.S. To be more accurate, he had been to Disney World in Orlando. The big new Stena Line high speed ferry to Ireland from Holyhead has been operating for less than a year. The regular ferry has been there for some time, but takes about twice as long to cross the Irish Sea to Dun Laoghaire. Coaches are inter-city buses.
Buses are for local service.
Stena Lines advertises that the trip takes 99 minutes but both crossings of the Irish Sea took about and hour and 50 minutes for our round trip. In Dun Laoghaire we boarded a train for Dublin. In Dublin we found a city tour bus and rode around the city, had lunch in a little pub, and boarded the train again back to the ferry. Our stay in Ireland was obviously too short, but it gave us a view of a tired and depressed looking city. It seemed to be lacking in pride and spirit.