Seventeen seaside villages, one electric train

Seventeen seaside villages, one electric train. Plan DART day trips from Dublin for coastal walks, swimming, great food, beaches and harbour views.

Skerries — Windmills, lobster pots and a harbour that glows at sunset
Howth — A fishing village clinging to a wild headland
Malahide & Portmarnock — A storybook castle and a beach the locals call 'the Velvet Strand'
Clontarf — Where the city meets the bay — and the Brent geese arrive each winter
Docklands — Dublin's glass-and-steel quarter, built on the old Liffey docks
City Centre — Two thousand years of history between Tara Street and Connolly
Grand Canal Dock — Tech HQs, theatre lights and a basin where you can paddleboard at lunch
Lansdowne Road — Where the country comes to roar — Ireland's home of rugby and football
Sandymount — Joyce's strand, where the tide goes out for a kilometre
Blackrock — A Victorian seaside village with a famous indoor market
Salthill & Monkstown — Quiet terraces, sea air and one of Dublin's best Italian restaurants
Dún Laoghaire — Two great granite piers wrapped around Ireland's largest yacht harbour
Sandycove & Glasthule — James Joyce's tower and the bracing Forty Foot bathing place
Dalkey — A medieval village turned 'Bay of Naples' for Bono and Enya
Killiney — The Bay of Naples of Ireland — and a cliff-top park to prove it
Bray — An old Victorian seaside resort with a mile-long promenade
Greystones — A Victorian harbour town in the shadow of the Sugar Loaf