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Staycation once again? The smart booking guide for 2021
- Ireland
- February 21, 2021, 06:00
WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO HOLIDAY ANYWHERE JUST YET, BUT WE ALL NEED SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS YEAR. FROM LUXURY SPLURGES TO FAMILY CAMPING AND(...)

Rainfall warning issued with risk of flooding in parts
- Irish News
- September 2, 2020, 14:09
August was a soggy month and September has carried on where it left off with more heavy rain forecast. A status yellow rain warning has been issued f(...)

Covid-19 ‘green list’: US will not be on it and the UK ‘unlikely’, Coveney says
- Politics
- July 17, 2020, 12:21
The US will definitely not be on the “green list”, which will be name a number of countries deemed safe for Irish people to travel during the Covid-19(...)

Galway reopening: ‘This is hitting tourism hard’
- Irish News
- July 14, 2020, 20:22
Jonathan Margetts, who owns Thomas Dillon’s Claddagh Gold Jewellers on Galway’s Quay Street, has sold Claddagh rings to generations of American touris(...)

New app from NUI Galway provides real-time weather forecasts
- Environment
- March 11, 2020, 09:21
A unique smartphone app which provides real-time weather forecasting combined with air quality indications, including risk of air pollution, has been (...)

Driving Master Dudley: Travelling around Ireland with a dog
- Ireland
- March 8, 2020, 06:00
Thursday Destination: Rambler’s Rest, Dunseverick, Co Antrim It’s 11am on a sunny Thursday morning when the two of us hit the road from our home in W(...)

Storm Jorge lashes Ireland with severe winds and heavy rain
- Environment
- February 29, 2020, 01:00
Thousands of properties were left without power on Saturday evening as Storm Jorge passed over the country, bringing heavy winds. A number of roads w(...)

Fáilte Ireland’s surprise competitor is ... Netflix
- Media & Marketing
- February 22, 2020, 03:33
Fáilte Ireland may have been busy lately preparing its €6 million marketing blitz to ramp up staycation revenues, but February’s miserable weather has(...)

Irish subsidiary of Airbnb made a profit of €80 million last year
- Media & Marketing
- November 24, 2019, 14:53
An Irish-registered unit of Airbnb made a profit of €80 million last year, the first time profit information about the accommodation platform’s busine(...)

‘In Toronto I paid a man to speak Irish with me for an hour every week’
- Abroad
- November 21, 2019, 07:06
I remember exactly where I was when I felt the first pull of homesickness. I was visiting Ireland in October 2013 and staying at the Morrison Hotel in(...)