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It is reported in this morning’s Irish Times that the Irish government is planning a u-turn on it’s decision 4 years ago to make both Cork Airport and Shannon Airport independent of Dublin airport.
According to the newspaper report, comments by minister for transport, Noel Dempsey, yesterday gave a clear indication of the intention to keep Cork and Shannon Airports under the authority of Dublin.
As often speculated at the time, it now appears that the State Airports Act 2004, was nothing more than a name change from Aer Rianta to the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA). If this story turns out to be true, surely a further name change is required? It would seem a ridiculous situation to have the other two airports as part of a DUBLIN airport authority in the longer term???
November 17th, 2008
Julian Lloyd Webber stars at Sheen Falls Lodge Classical Weekend, November 21st to 23rd.
Following the success of his performance last year, Julian Lloyd Webber returns to Sheen Falls with a new beautiful programme of classical music.
One of the world’s most popular solo cellists; Julian has premiered more than 50 unique works for cello and has inspired new composition by composers such as Malcolm Arnold, Joaquin Rodrigo, James MacMillian and Philip Glass.
At Sheen Falls, Julian will perform favourite classics by Bach, Brahms, Faure, Saint Saens and Elgar, jazz greats Cleo Laine, Stephane Grappelli and Elton John in addition to works, of course, by his brother Andrew Lloyd Webber.
November 12th, 2008
The appointment has been announced that Gerry Walsh, former CEO of Board Gáis, will take over the position of Chairman of the Cork Airport Authority.
At myguideIreland we are huge fans of Cork Airport and often receive reviews from travellers highlighting the ease of transit and the quality of the experience at Cork Airport.
We welcome the appointment of Gerry Walsh and wish hime every success in steering the airport to even greater success in the coming years.
November 6th, 2008
This October, In association with Adare Manor Resort we are offering you the chance to live like a Lord or Lady. Adare is the perfect base for touring the most popular tourist site in Ireland in Counties, Kerry, Limerick, Cork and Clare and we are giving you a choice of 2 great value packages that include the Adare Manor experience:
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7 nights on the estate in one of Adare’s luxury Villas including a Rental Car for just $342/£195 per person when 4 people share or $684/£391 per person when 2 people share. read more
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7 days/6 nights touring Ireland including 2 nights in the historic Adare Manor House for just €573/£327 read more
Both packages include:
October 13th, 2008
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, The Beamish Cork Folk Festival begins today and runs until Sunday. This year’s event kicks off with a Flute Concert Presented By Karl Nesbitt in the Spailpín Fánach at 9pm tonight and culmintaes in a program of events on Sunday that begins with the Cork Ceili Mor in Bishop Lucey park at 2pm on Sunday.
October 2nd, 2008
This month myguideIreland have another excellent offer giving you the opportunity for only $359 to spend a 6 days in Ireland including a castle stay!
Combine the luxury regal experience of a 15th Century castle with a stay in a cottage vacation rental as you tour Ireland’s most popular tourist region. The package includes:
- 4 nights in a cottage vacation rental.
- 1 night in the former Castle home of one of Ireland’s most famous Earls.
- Full cooked Irish breakfast in Castle Dining room.
- Economy rental car including unlimited mileage, CDW, all fees and taxes.
- Map of Ireland.
- Shipping by FedEx of your accommodation vouchers
- Ireland discount booklet with $600 in admission concessions
September 16th, 2008
What Dublin doesn’t have in size, it more than makes up for in personality. Ask anyone who’s visited the ‘Fair City’ and they’ll have one or two tales to tell about the legendary charm of Dublin. This September, Dublin is set to host a range of exciting events that provide the perfect opportunity to experience the city‘s unique character.
Of these events the one grabbing most of the headlines is the Dublin Fringe Festival. Picking up where Edinburgh left off, The Fringe is Ireland’s showcase of visual and performance arts played out at established and makeshift venues throughout Dublin from September 6th to 21st
Read more on the Dublin Fringe Festival
September 11th, 2008
It’s official! Westport in County Mayo is Ireland’s tidiest town. For the third time, the County mayo town has won the overall title at the 2008 SuperValu TidyTowns awards ceremony in Dublin. Westport previously won in 2001 and in 2006
A visit to Westport as part of an Ireland vacation or holiday will show the beauty that the town exudes.
Tidy towns initiative
The national TidyTowns competition was launched by Bord Fáilte (now Fáilte Ireland) in 1958 as a follow on from the National Spring Clean Campaign which ran from 1953 and 1957 as part of Tostal a tourism celebration of all things Irish. Bord Fáilte was restructured in 1995 and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government assumed ownership of TidyTowns and now organises the competition with the support of national sponsor SuperValu
September 8th, 2008
Aer Arann have announced that they will take over the Glasgow-Prestwick - Cork route that is being axed by Ryanair.
This follows the announcement by Ryanair last week that it was cutting two routes out of Cork Airport including the Galsgow route.
Aer Arann, who also fly to Edinburgh from Cork, confirmed this morning that they will begin flying from Cork to Glasgow’s Prestwick airport from October 28. This ensures there is no break in service for travelers between the two airports and is great news for me :) (and for other people working for companies with offices in both Cork and Glasgow.)
September 5th, 2008
Today I was looking for Aerlingus’ corporate website (or at least a site where there was information for peopel other than passengers) and I stumbled on www.aerlingusplc.com. What I found was eye-opening to say the least.
Despite Ryanair owning 29.4% of AerLingus, these two airlines are fierce competitors and are always in battle for customers. When I saw this I did a little research and found that when you do a google search for AerLingusplc, there is the Ryanair version of the site ranked at number 1. This search also revealed that Ryanair also own www.aerlingusplc.net.
The European Commission blocked a proposed takeover of AerLingus by Ryanair last year on following a rejection by the Aer Lingus board. Is the ownership of two Aer-lingus titled websites is a sweet dig back at the Irish national airline for Michael O’Leary or just childishness?
August 22nd, 2008
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