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Fleadh For Ennis

Clare County Council has welcomed the announcement by the Ardchomhairle of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann of its decision to name Ennis as the host venue for the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in 2016.

Having narrowly missed out on winning the right to host the annual event in the past four years, Ennis has been named ahead of Sligo and Drogheda as the host venue for the event at a ceremony in Dublin.

It is anticipated that Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann will attract an estimated 300,000 visitors to the Clare County Capital next year.

“The Working Group established to bring the event to Clare has been working tirelessly over the past number of years and put together a very strong argument as to why Ennis, arguably one of the best known traditional Irish music centres in the world, would be a worthy host location. Everybody concerned is thrilled by this decision," commented Cllr. John Crowe, Cathaoirleach of Clare County Council.

Attraction Managers Graduate

Over six months ago twenty-four managers of top visitor attractions from across the East and South regions, commenced Fáilte Ireland’s first ever Visitor Attraction –

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Management Development Programme. This week the group graduated at Kilkenny Castle, having completed the new programme which was focused on benchmarking Ireland’s heritage attractions with the best in class attractions overseas.

Pictured is Gary Breen with Kilkenny graduates at Kilkenny Castle.

The managers and owners from Cork, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford, Meath, Louth, Wicklow, Dublin and Kildare, have been taking part in studies focusing on all areas of management culminating today in a presentation of certificates at Kilkenny Castle.

Banner Rocks

The unique geology of Clare has established the County as a leading research location for the world's largest oil and gas companies.

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That's according to a new book detailing the geology that has established County Clare, home to the Burren and Ireland's longest cave system, as one of Western Europe's most geologically important regions.

In 'Banner Rocks - The Geological Heritage of County Clare', Dr. Matthew Parkes of the Natural History Museum explains how West Clare is one of the few locations in the world where the oil industry can survey surface rock identical in composition to the rock found on the Gulf of Mexico seabed, under which there is believed to be potentially 48 billion barrels of undiscovered oil.

Dr. Parkes says the average deepwater well can cost $300 million which, in an effort to reduce costs, has resulted in the petroleum giants sending hundreds of industrial and academic researchers to Clare each year to conduct pre-drilling survey work.

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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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