Sure Where Else Would You Want To Be? The Best Pictures Of Ireland

Earlier this week Commander Chris Hadfield, an astronaut whose currently having the craic in space, made every Irish person on Twitter smile with his stunning picture of Dublin from space.

Here it is, just in case you missed it:

Amazing or what? Commander Hadfield received more than a thousand retweets in half-an-hour from Irish speakers on Tuesday who were overjoyed with his cúpla focail on the social networking website.

The astronaut has a soft spot for Ireland and his daughter, Kristen, is currently studying at Trinity College in Dublin.

After viewing Commander Hadfield’s picture it got us thinking about just how gorgeous Ireland actually is. When the sun is shining (hell, even when it’s a bit miserable outside) there isn’t anywhere else that we’d rather be.

There’s green everywhere, the natural landscape is absolutely fab and the people? Well, they’re just the best in the world.

Here are just some of our favourite pictures of our little emerald isle...