The Cliffs of Moher Experience in County Clare has won a Gold Award and the accolade of ‘Best Visit’ in Ireland at the annual CIE Tours International Awards of Excellence. The awards, which are based on feedback received from customers of CIE Tours International throughout the year, were presented at a ceremony held in the Irish…
Local elections were held in Northern Ireland on 18 May 2023. The elections were delayed by two weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III. Following the elections, Sinn Féin became the largest party in local government for the first time. It also marked the first time that nationalist parties had garnered…
The council elections in the North of Ireland demonstrate an undeniable truth: voters overwhelmingly have directed their representatives to get back to work and earn their pay. The Democratic Unionist Party, espousing a one-note message of “Just Say No” to government, received a paltry 23% of the vote. Sinn Fein and other parties campaigned on “bread and butter” issues of delivering…
Ireland is in a bit of a change according to the Census. The huge data that the OSC released shows an aging and diverse population in Ireland. The most surprising thing is the sharp fall in the numbers professing to be Catholic fell from 79% in 2016 to 69% in 2022. Also for the first…
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the Irish Tricolour is a symbol of ‘a shared future and a shared island’ at an event to mark the 175th anniversary of the flying of the Irish National Flag. The Taoiseach was speaking at a flag-raising ceremony in Waterford as part of a program of events to mark the anniversary….
Scattered around the Irish countryside the mysterious fairy forts have the power to curse those who cross them and even affect the weather… how much do we really know about these mystical structures? Throughout Ireland, there are thousands of mysterious looking forts whose reputations strike terror into the hearts of many. These forts have the…
Featured image courtesy of https://www.cesc.ie/ December 6, 2021 marked 100 Years Since Anglo-Irish Treaty Signed The signing of the treaty ended the War of Independence and set the stage for British withdrawal from most of Ireland with the handover of power to an independent Irish Government. The treaty gave Ireland independence, but as a member…
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The Cliffs of Moher Experience has been named winner of ‘Ireland’s Best Visitor Attraction’ in The Irish Independent’s annual Reader Travel Awards 2023. The County Clare visitor attraction finished ahead of Ireland’s best known tourist sites in a poll of Irish and international readers of The Irish Independent. It is the second time that the…
A digital tourism marketing campaign offering a 5-day getaway break to County Clare had attracted more than 34,000 entries from across the United States and Canada. Hosted by the Cliffs of Moher Experience and supported by Tourism Ireland, Aer Lingus and Clare tourism operators, the ‘Epic Trip’ competition targeted the North American market and reached…