Flights: Flew from Gatwick with Rynair for £2 return :D
Accomodation: Most back packers around the city centre have shared dorms for £15
Culture: found Temple Bar extremely dissapointing. Went to Temple Bar pub and the best 'Irish' culture we could get was a guy singing U2 covers. Also we paid the equivalent of 1pint of guiness in the UK for half a pint in Dublin. To be honest, a trip out to Black Rocks was the high light (of course excluding the Guiness factory).