Skating on Thin Ice

You can take the headline literally - Ireland's ice rinks are not frozen-over lakes and streams, the usually mild Irish weather forbids this somehow. So you have to go for artificial ice. Provided at several places. And with full entertainment packages for those who want not to dare life and limb on the ice themselves.

• Belfast
  Dundonald International Ice Bowl
• Dublin
  7up Christmas on Ice at the RDS and for the first time at the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre
  Dun Laoghaire on Ice at Booterstown
  Smithfield on Ice - saved at lhe eleventh hour
• Killarney
  Ireland on Ice

For more festive ideas, see my full listing of recommended Christmas events in Ireland.