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More than a decade ago, a bold and imaginative idea reshaped the future of Ireland’s western seaboard. When Wild Atlantic Way was launched in 2014 by Fáilte Ireland, it was far more than a scenic driving route—it was a strategic intervention aimed at revitalising communities that had been hit hard by economic decline.

Tourism businesses from Ireland – including Real Adventures Connemara – were in Utrecht this week, taking part in Tourism Ireland’s first promotion of 2026 in the Netherlands.

City of Galway Deputy Mayor, Councillor Níall McNelis, who runs Claddagh & Celtic jewellers on Quay Lane, wants the Claddagh symbol of heart, hands and crown legally protected.

The year 2025 marks a momentous year for Ireland’s oldest city, Waterford, as it marks its 1,111th anniversary. Founded in 914 AD by Viking Ragnall, as ‘Vadrarjfordr’ - its original Viking name - the foundations of Ireland’s history are imprinted over centuries on Waterford’s landscape and within the city’s labyrinth of narrow streets and laneways inside the medieval walls.

The Gum Litter Taskforce (GLT) took to the streets of Athenry last week as a part of its Summer Roadshow.

Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, launched Ireland’s first INSTO Observatory at ATU yesterday marking a historic moment for the nation’s tourism industry and signalling a commitment to sustainable practices in the sector.

USIT, one of the leading providers of the Australia Working Holiday Programme, has just announced a €100 discount on all Australian Working visas to celebrate the launch of their brand new website.

A group of Belgian and Dutch travel agents has been exploring County Westmeath and Ireland as guests of Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland.

Irish defence forces aircraft and shis were called into action this week off the Galway coast after being alerted to the presence of two Russian Government vessels sailing in the area of the recently-laid Galway to Iceland communications subsea cable.

Sometime before 1905, John Bagnell Bury, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, and already one of the most distinguished historians of his time, turned his attentions to St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.