Driver Guide Skillset
- National tour guide
- Clean driving licence since 1993
- SPSV and D1 licences, modules up-to-date
- 30 years heritage experience with own audio archive
- Excellent reviews and feedback
- No drinking ever on tour, Garda-vetted
Specialities: literature - folklore - social history - Guinness
Qualifications
Nationally Accredited Tour Guide
Proud Approved Tourist Guides of Ireland (ATGI) Member. I have been awarded the National Tour Guiding Special Purpose Award. This means I’m qualified to lead tours around the whole of Ireland.
The QQI Level 6 tour guiding qualifications I’ve received are in the areas of:-
- National Tour Guiding
- Irish National Heritage and Culture
- National Tour Management
Cultural Heritage commentator
Storyteller
For all the qualifications in the world, if I can’t open my mouth and tell a yarn, then this page ‘ain’t worth a pitcher of warm spit’ as some great sage once said. That same fellow also said that speaking in public is ranked even higher than a fear of death. And boy, did I once fear both back in my twenties, but no more; ‘not with the fire in my belly now’ as yet another great sage once said.
In the accompanying video, I’m talking about Ireland’s oh-so-pious St. Kevin of Glendalough and bringing in his neighbour, the late boulevardier, Garech Browne. I was doing it to show that sometimes opposites can have plenty in common. Showing who you’re talking about helps greatly I find.
Driving Competencies
Limousine Licence
Mini Bus Licence





