Tourism Ireland unveiled a second online film featuring Co Meath. It’s called “Stories of Ireland’s Ancient East: The Fairy Tree” – featuring storyteller Steve Lally recounting the story of the fairy folk said to live at the Hill of Tara.
To view the film, click here.
Tourism Ireland has unveiled an online film called “Stories of Ireland’s Ancient East: The Goddess’s Throne”, featuring Loughcrew and “beautiful County Meath” – part of Tourism Ireland’s promotional activity to highlight Ireland’s Ancient East around the world.
New online film goes live, highlighting Ireland’s Ancient East to millions across Great Britain
A new online film starring actor Richard E Grant exploring Ireland’s Ancient East, including Newgrange, has been unveiled. It’s the fourth in the series of short films created by Tourism Ireland and Smooth Radio to highlight the island of Ireland to holidaymakers in Great Britain.
Can Irish tourism maintain its stellar growth curve into 2017 and beyond? Just ask Luke Skywalker.
The elusive Jedi, last seen brooding on Skellig Michael in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is this week doing a nixer in London. Or rather, an uncanny lookalike is.
Skywalker's doppelganger is greeting visitors to the Tourism Ireland stand at World Travel Market (WTM), the world's largest travel fair. Beside him, a row of lightsabers is laid out for selfies beside maps of Ireland and Star Wars location flyers.
Across Meath from 14-18 November
Boyne Valley Tourism invited members of the Incoming Tour Operations Association (ITOA) to Meath and Louth to showcase what the Boyne Valley area has to offer overseas groups and individual travellers. The ITOA handled a total of 493,750 tourists in 2015 and this figure is increasing year on year. These tourists make a very valuable economic contribution, spending over €510 million when holidaying in Ireland. According to the ITOA the four largest markets, which account for 96% of the total tourists to Ireland, are North America, France, Germany, Austria
We are delighted to announce that Boyne Valley Tourism has been chosen as one of the four finalists (and the only Irish representative) in the award for Global Sport Tourism Destination Marketing Category at the internationally renowned WTM London event. With so many fantastic sporting festivals such as the Meath Heritage Cycle, Tattersalls Country Fair & International Horse Trials, Fairyhouse – Grand National, Boyne Valley Links golf, the World Sandyachting Championships in 2017 with FISLA, Tough Mudder at Loughcrew Adventure Centre and many venues includi
The 2016 Point-to-Point and Country Fair at Dowth which will took place on Sunday 30
The Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Patrick O'Donovan, today announced €445k in funding from Fáilte Ireland’s Capital Grants Allocation for 2016 for two key projects in County Meath, within Ireland’s Ancient East.
A grant of €350k has been awarded towards the development of interpretation plans for some of the key heritage attractions in the Boyne Valley while a further grant of €95k has been allocated to the Office of Public Works (OPW) towards the continuing development of the Stone Age site at Knowth, Co Meath.
