It was an exciting and successful weekend of competitions, concerts, céilithe and sessions as the Comhaltas 64th Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann was celebrated by an estimated 400,000 throughout Sligo. The biggest event to have ever been hosted in Sligo, organisers estimate that attendance was up 30% on the previous year. Sligo seemed to pulse with Irish rhythm and revelry as age-old traditions were celebrated by fresh generations. The Fleadh Cheoil featured a week-long festival of fun with over 250 events and in excess of 8,000 competitors taking part in the All Ireland Fleadh competitions. Sligo spared no effort ensuring an entertaining event-packed programme that brought the world’s premier festival of […]
Overseas visitor numbers to Ireland grew by 12.1pc in the first five months of the year. The growth sets Ireland on a course for its best ever year in tourism. “If this trend continues we will be looking at a record year for overseas visitor numbers,” said Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport, Paschal Donohoe. Ireland is now in its fifth consecutive year of growth in visitor numbers, with the economic recovery, expanding air routes, a 9pc VAT rate for the sector and marketing initiatives like the Wild Atlantic Way and The Gathering all apparently paying dividends. 2007 was Irish tourism’s busiest year to date, with 7.7m visitors. “These are […]
Six Irish attractions have made it onto a list of the world’s top 500 must-see sights of all time, compiled by guidebook publisher Lonely Planet. The Cliffs of Moher are placed 378 on the list, “where Co Clare plunges off 214m-high cliffs”. The immense sea swell and craggy offshore islands attract big-wave surfers and puffins alike. “Northern Ireland’s most popular tourist attraction”, the “multimedia extravaganza” at Titanic Belfast, is the only museum on the island of Ireland to make the list, at number 424. With talking holograms, film footage, computer “fly-throughs” and rides depicting the ship’s doomed history, the museum “doesn’t feel macabre, celebrating instead the achievements of shipbuilders”. The […]
PAYMENTS Ireland West Private Tours accepts payment by check or major credit cards DEPOSITS A non-refundable deposit amounting to 10% of the total value of the arrangements made is required to confirm reservations. The booking is only confirmed when the deposit is received. FINAL PAYMENT Full payment must be made 45 days prior to departure. We reserve the right to withdraw all, or part of, the services if this condition is not complied with and the deposit payment will be forfeited CANCELLATION FEES In the event of cancellation, it should be noted that the following cancellation fees would be levied, depending on the date of cancellation. The […]
Though we specialise in west coast tours we can customise tours to all parts of Ireland. We can draft or amend itineraries to meet your particular cultural or recreational interests. Where possible we can draft itineraries to coincide with festivals of music, film, food, theatre literature, and a broad range of sporting events. Our Writers Trail which focuses on the places that inspired such notable Irish writers as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, W.B.Yeats, Sean O Casey, Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Frank McCourt Demote Healy, John McGahern and Tom Murphy is a very popular tour.
The Wild Atlantic Way is Ireland’s longest defined coastal touring route. From Donegal to Cork, you can explore the rugged beauty of the west. All of our west coast Itineraries take in the more spectacular sections of this ever increasing popular route.
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Six Days in the West of Ireland from as little as $270 PPS. Weekend breaks in the West of Ireland from as little as $220 PPS Contact us for further details.
Ireland West Private Tours are different and unique, we take you to places that are off the beaten track as well as the West’s major tourist attractions. We try to give you both a contemporary and historical flavour of the region, from sites of great historical and cultural importance, to wind swept beaches and rolling hills, to the pulsating cultural and cosmopolitan buzz of Galway City. But the choice is yours, you can pick and plan your itinerary, you can cut and change at will, or linger longer in some places. We give you time to relish the hidden Ireland, you are in complete control.