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Are you looking for last minute travel inspiration or exciting ideas for 2025? Travel expert Caroline O’Toole, head of cruises and luxury holidays at JWT Travel, shares her top trends.

JWT Travel has an exclusive offer for those looking to cruise the Rhine Valley in luxury this October.

With its growing popularity, river cruising is a very special holiday experience. Typically accommodating fewer passengers than ocean cruises, it offers a more intimate and personalised experience.

"We believe that exploring the world is one of life’s gifts. A holiday is not just about the destination – it is about new experiences and the bonds that are being made along the way. We bring people, places and culture together to create lasting memories." This is a quote from Riviera Travel who are back selling in the Irish market.

A TG4 documentary to be shown next week will recall how city teenager Paddy Devlin travelled from Galway to Belfast to enlist in the British Army in 1941 and became one of its deadliest snipers.

If river cruising is on your bucket list of adventures for 2023, now is the time to get booking an amazing cruise experience with some wonderful discounts.

Shortly after dawn on Saturday, September 16 1944, Michael Conneely, a bachelor of 55 years, was asleep in his cottage at Ailleabreach, Ballyconneely, when loud banging on his door woke him. He shouted ‘who’s there?’ The storm of the previous two days had abated but he couldn’t make out what the voice said. Grabbing a pitchfork, he slowly opened to door. Outside were two men, wet to the skin, in deep distress. Michael put the pitchfork to the throat of the first man: “Who are you?”

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Ireland West Airport has warmly welcomed the first scheduled service from Cologne in Germany via Ryanair which took place last week.

Ireland West Airport welcomed the first scheduled service from Cologne with Ryanair to the West of Ireland when the flight landed last weekend.