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Kilkenny hurling fans will make their way to Croke Park this Sunday, July 5, where both the Kilkenny senior and minor hurling teams bid to retain their Leinster titles.

Tourism Ireland has launched a nationwide search for a number of individuals or couples to star in a series of short online movies to help market the island of Ireland overseas and attract more visitors in 2009 and beyond.

Ireland’s largest amateur five-day cycling event, the Kellogg’s Tour of Ireland Cycle Challenge, will see some 150 cyclists from all over Europe and the island of Ireland blaze through Mayo on Saturday May 9 as they undertake stage 3 of the challenge.

Age and Opportunity, the group which encourages greater participation in society by older people in Ireland, has teamed up with the Sports Council to announce this year’s Go for Life grant scheme to encourage Ireland’s older people in their quest to remain fit and healthy.

A new tourism initiative, promoting great value deals for holidays in the west of Ireland, reached some one million newspaper readers around Great Britain at the weekend.

Local volunteer, Sr Veronica Gilsenan, has been announced as a nominee in the prestigious Ireland Involved Awards with Specsavers, taking place on Thursday November 5 at the Royal Kilmainham Hospital, Dublin.

Dertour, with a €1.5 billion turnover last year, and market leader for the past 40 years, are currently in Ireland attending their annual travel academy. While the travel academy will be based in Killarney, all 700 travel agents are participating in pre and post academy tours, organised by Fáilte Ireland, in conjunction with Tourism Ireland. The tours present a valuable opportunity for the tourism industry to sell itself to the German market and allow Fáilte Ireland to showcase the best that Ireland has to offer throughout the country.