Dr Connie Kelleher of the National Monuments Service said Skellig Michael was a unique site where there was a delicate balance that was vulnerable to the elements.

Dublin City Council has approved a planning application by the company, which runs the well-known souvenir stores, for an “immersive and interactive film experience” at its existing outlet on Talbot Street in Dublin.

Although turnover levels overall have declined, Fáilte Ireland said the outcome was still more favourable than anticipated

Tourism Ireland said Ms Ortega’s quotes about her time here had gone viral and were covered in newspapers across the world.

The new figures from the CSO also showed that 772,800 foreign visitors completed a trip to Ireland last month

The Dublin Airport passenger cap and value-for-money were also identified as risks considered to be in the medium to high range by Fáilte Ireland.

The plan awaits final endorsement of governmental bodies.

The Irish hospitality industry has long called for its VAT rate to be slashed from 13.5 per cent to 9 per cent.

Onlookers said children were playing close to the section of rock when it started to crumble.

There were 654,500 foreign visitors who completed a trip to Ireland in June 2025, down two per cent on June last year, but up six per cent on June 2023.

The average length of stay for foreign resident overnight visitors was 7.3 nights.

More than 8,000 extra beds are believed to have come available again as tourist accommodation in the past six months

A roadmap for delivery of the Dublin City Taskforce Report was also published.

The St Stephen's Green attraction will officially open to the public again on Thursday

An evaluation of the stadium’s economic impact carried out by EY shows that €39.9 million would be spent as a result of the 2030 T20 World Cup Cricket tournament.

This continues a downward trend which has been ongoing since September of 2024.

The Clifden Station House hotel was the location of the Golfgate controversy in August 2020 during the early stages of the pandemic

Travel from some countries — including Ireland, Norway and Germany — fell by more than 20 per cent, an FT analysis of ITA data showed.

Fingal County Council has written to local authorities as part of a push for legislation to allow councils to introduce the charge.

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12.7 per cent of overseas visitors came from the United States, with 6.4 per cent coming from Spain and Portugal.

Police would also fine holidaymakers caught weeing where they shouldn’t up to the same amount.

Tom Connolly has been running a sauna in west Kerry since March 2024.

The Tully Mill wheel, which had been derelict for many years, has now been fully restored at the Florence Court estate in Co Fermanagh.

Visitors from key markets are becoming 'more value conscious'

The warning follows a case of a 21-year-old woman who suffered a rare splenic fungal abscess after undergoing gastric sleeve surgery in Turkey.

The most frequent reason for travelling to Ireland was for holiday or leisure, with 44.2 per cent of tourists coming for that reason.

Tourism chiefs told MLAs that any transatlantic flight from NI had to be commercially viable.

In Tenerife, protestors will start marching at midday on Sunday with placards and banners from a shopping centre in Playa de las Americas in the south of the island.

The Villa Vie Odyssey had to carry out unexpected repair works in May.

New accounts show that the post tax profits of €402,513 in the 12 months to the end of October last follow post tax profits of €161,848 in 2022.

The annual figure for 2023 represents a 12-month increase of over 920,000 additional guest nights for tourist accommodation providers in the Republic.

Tripadvisor recognised Mount Congreve Gardens and Waterford Treasures in the Travellers’ Choice Awards for 2024

The airline said its engagement with the industrial dispute body was an ‘important step’ in the row over pilots’ pay.

The largest contingent of visitors from overseas came from Britain

The former RTÉ Midlands Correspondent, Ciaran Mullooly, said their solutions are "lazy" and completely disregard the tourism sector

The all-island report found that the number of trips from the Republic to Northern Ireland has ‘increased dramatically’ over the past decade

International tourists occupied the majority of bedspaces in guesthouses, B&Bs and hostels last year

Tourism NI welcomed the figures relating to numbers of overnight visitors from the Republic as ‘unprecedented’.

Stormont Economy Minister Conor Murphy also mooted linking up the Hidden Heartlands in the Republic with Co Fermanagh.

The list was put together by Solitaired.com, by analysing almost 67 million Google reviews of more than 3,000 attractions worldwide.

The 2,600km route has contributed to the creation of an additional 35,000 jobs, according to Fáilte Ireland.

Research carried out by Fáilte Ireland found that 20 per cent agreed that tourists put too much pressure on their county, while 71 per cent said they had experienced some negative impacts from tourism activity in the area where they live.