Ireland a dynamic, lively, modern country with a young population and a successful, technologically orientated economy, but it remains a country where music, conversation, culture, traditions, time to relax, listen and make friends. It is a country with cultured, cosmopolitan cities renowned for its beautiful, unspoiled countryside and scenery.
It is an English-speaking country with close cultural, economic and educational links with the English-speaking world. It is part of the EU family of nations and cultures and of the increasingly integrated European Education Area.