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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.

Cairde Sligo Arts Festival is one of two Irish festivals leading projects as part of EFFEA - the European Festival Fund for Emerging Artists. Cairde will be working with Aoife and Mark Carry of Twisted Lane Productions, a Spectacle Theatre company based in Connemara. Twisted Lane aim to excite, intrigue and astonish audiences with the highest quality, one of a kind spectacle experience. Aoife and Mark have been working internationally on large scale circus and spectacle shows since 2014 and have worked with companies like Cirque Du Soleil, Franco Dragone and MGM. They are excited to bring this extensive experience in large scale spectacle into their own work, and to a wider Irish audience.

Airbnb has revealed the 2023 trending destinations at home and abroad for Irish guests.

We are fortunate to live in Galway and to have the Burren within shouting distance. Some 15,000 hectares of a unique landscape that miraculously contain all the major habitats found on this island.