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I'm sorry that this is a bit delayed! Our trip will probably be postponed to a later date - but all of you replies were helpful and valuable. I was also reminded to check the archives first! Yes! I'll try to remember that in the future!

The general feeling is that it is relatively easy to travel there gluten free, but it is more difficult in the little villages...Might have to pack food for those outings...

Mary
California

    ..I was in the rural farm country in E & W Clare and found little to eat.  Fortunately took tuna, crackers, applesauce, etc. with me for emergency.  Towns and cities are quite different.  Dunns and Tesco supermarkets have much to choose from.  Be aware that many of the baked goods and mixes have wheat starch in them if you do not eat that. Ireland is beautiful and the people are more wonderful than you can imagine.  If you don't make food the most important thing, I believe you'll have a wonderful time.

    ..Despite the high incidence of Celiacs in Ireland, alot of restaurants don't
specifically cater for celiacs, although alot are flexible enough to
accomodate special requirements. I've never come accross a non-specialist
restaurant having it's own gluten free menu - but then again I don't eat out
that much. 

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You will find people far more savvy about CD and GF foods in Ireland than elsewhere. Most B&Bs know of it and, if you let them know ahead of time, will have GF buns or muffins for your breakfast. Also, most grocery stores have a GF aisle and also sell Tritamyn flour (mostly wheat starch) which is a very good GF flour substitute, I find. Don't know where you are going in Ireland but there is a wonderful restaurant in Youghal (border of Cork and Waterford) called Aherne's. The woman who runs the place's husband is Coeliac. 

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    ...Many of the supermarkets have GF items -  see www.superquinn.ie  they have a
good gluten section and many of the products are also available in TESCO the
other main supermarket chain -


    ...We went there 2 years ago (2 of us are celiacs).  It is wonderful!  Some better restaurants even had  a "c" next to the menu item .. Like we in USA have the heart for healthy foods.  You will be fine..if you are staying in B&B"s if you tell them ahead of time they will even et the bread.
Enjoy!  ERIN GO BRAGH! 

    ..I read in a magazine that GALWAY BAY is one of the best places to visit in Ireland.
They have gluten free menus and gf foods in the stores.  But Ireland has lots of celiacs, so it should be easy for you.

    ...Ireland's a great place for celiacs to travel.  I doubt you would have any 
difficulty in stores, etc.  I also just read an article in GF Living magazine 
about a restaurant in Dublin that is owned and operated by a Celiac chef!  He, 
of course, has a regular menu (for "regular" people), but nearly everything can 
be adapted.  And there is fresh baked, gluten-free bread daily.  

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