For those of you interested in visiting Northern Ireland, it has a well developed gay scene in Belfast and there is also a small scene in Northern Ireland's second city, [London] Derry, close to the border of Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.
Belfast has five gay venues, three bars and a couple of Nite clubs including the best known of these, 'The Kremlin' which backs onto The Union Street Bar. Belfast also has a gay men's sauna and numerous gay and lesbian groups.