12 of the best things to do in Dublin

I've been a travel writer for all of my professional life - and a lot of that life has been spent travelling and writing guidebooks for Lonely Planet. My general passions - besides the joy that from all the uncanny and unimaginable places and people and things out there in the world - are history (travel interrupted a future career as a historian), music (for 20 years I was travel writer by day, DJ by night), radio (I've been a radio presenter since 2003) and sport (I co-host a successful golf p…