Ireland

Ireland is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain. Politically, the state Ireland (described as the Republic of Ireland in cases of ambiguity) covers five-sixths of the island, with Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, covering the remainder in the north-east.
The population of the island is slightly over 6 million (2007), with 4.4 million in the Republic of Ireland (1.7 million in Greater Dublin and an estimated 1.75 million in Northern Ireland (800,000 in Greater Belfast). 
=== Places, projects and networks ===
*Dublin
*Cork (city)
*Sustainable Ireland
*Sustainable Clonakilty
*Cloughjordan Ecovillage