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Motorsport Writers at Grand Prix

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Writers from top motorsports magazines in France, Germany and Italy – with a combined circulation of more than 300,000 readers – were in Northern Ireland over the weekend, especially to enjoy some of the Ulster Grand Prix Bike Week and to experience what Northern Ireland has to offer their readers.

Tourism Ireland invited the journalists to travel to Northern Ireland for the races at Dundrod, as well as to enjoy a whistle-stop tour of some of our top tourist attractions, which included a Black Taxi tour of Belfast and visits to Titanic Belfast and the SS Nomadic. The writers also stopped off with Northern Ireland motorcycle legend, Phillip McCallen, at his business in Lisburn.

The journalists’ visit was organised to take in the Ulster Grand Prix, billed as the world’s fastest road race, and will result in articles appearing in specialist magazines including Moto Revue (France), Motorrad (Germany) and Motociclismo(Italy). Tourism Ireland’s message is that Northern Ireland is a motorsports hub, with world-class racing, events and talent.

Media Play 'Game of Gods'

A group of 12 international journalists from the US, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Britain arrive in Ireland to-day to experience first-hand the uniqu

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e nature of Irish Hurling.

The special ‘Game of Gods’ hurling experience familiarisation trip has been organised by Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland. Together the journalists represent a combined circulation of over 32.6 million. They will top their trip by attending the All-Ireland Hurling Semi-Final between Kilkenny and Waterford at Croke Park this Sunday. Among the group attending the game is freelance writer Kathy Mangan, with the National Geographic Traveler Magazine which attracts more than 26 million global visitors a month.

Hi Tech at St. Patrick's

Visitors to St Patrick’s Cathedral in the heart of Dublin 8 will now be able to get a high tech insight into the building - past and present, with the launch of a new Discovery

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Pictured at the launch were Canon Horace McKinley, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Orla Carroll, director of strategic development, Failte Ireland, Minister Paschal Donohoe and Andrew Smith, education officer, St. Patrick's Cathedraal.

The Discovery Space is Phase Two of the €250,000 works to the building and was funded by Fáilte Ireland and St Patrick's Cathedral.

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Paschal Donohoe TD together with Orla Carroll, Director of Strategic Development with Fáilte Ireland were on hand to officially open the new area, which is housed in the south transept of the historic building.

Highlights of the new facility include a large touch screen table featuring interactive content on the building’s history; brass rubbings; a large jigsaw of one of the windows of the Cathedral; a small reference library; an Audio Visual unit; and a number of iPad computers featuring the Cathedral’s app.

The Discovery Space fuses the history of the Cathedral with modern technology, with the docks housing the iPads, the Discovery Boxes where the games are stored, and the Audio Visual unit constructed from recycled 19th Century carved oak pews from the building.

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New Paris Tourism Event

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A delegation of 35 Irish tourism businesses travelled to Paris to take part in a brand new, B2B tourism event for 2015, Irlande à Paris.

The group is pictured with Caroline Phelan, Tourism Ireland (back, fifth right), and Game of Thrones characters (right), outside the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, where the new B2B tourism event, Irlande à Paris, took place.

Organised by Tourism Ireland, Irlande à Paris took place in the Irish Cultural Centre and involved two simultaneous workshops and networking events – one targeting group tour operators and travel agents, the other business tourism and MICE (meetings, incentive, conferences and events) buyers. It provided the Irish delegation with the opportunity to meet and do business with more than 250 carefully selected French travel professionals – including leading business tourism buyers, group tour operators and travel agents.

Monica MacLaverty, Tourism Ireland’s head of southern Europe, said: “2014 was a record year for French visitors to Ireland and Tourism Ireland in France is undertaking an extensive programme of promotional activity throughout 2015 – to keep the momentum going and build on that growth. We were delighted that so many influential French travel professionals took the time to come and meet our industry partners at our new event, Irlande à Paris – demonstrating their keen interest in programming the island of Ireland in 2015 and beyond.”

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