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Welcome
to Travel Directories Ireland Newsletter for Autumn 2004
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Tourism
News
It reports on progress made, progress needing to be made and key barriers to progress in implementing the policies set out by the Tourism Policy Review Group in its Report, New Horizons for Irish Tourism: An Agenda for Action.
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Air Travel
Cork Airport:
Cork airport wishes to advise the public to arrive 2 hours prior to the scheduled departure time when planning their journey to the airport due to ongoing construction.
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New Flights:
Aer Lingus announced the introduction of four new routes from Dublin to Europe in its winter schedule this year. This expansion brings to seventeen the number of new routes introduced in 2004. Services to Liverpool, Las Palmas, Lanzarote and Budapest will start at the end of October 2004.
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Daily flights to Coventry from Shannon and Cork starting in November with Thomson fly
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EU jet fly from Shannon to Dublin, Faro, Geneva, Malaga, Murcia and Kent. Dublin to Kent and Shannon.
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Tourism Statistics
The Central Statistics Office have released Travel and Tourism statistics for January to June 2004.
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| ,000 Bednights | Great Britain | Other Europe | USA & Canada | Other Areas | ||||||||
| Jan-June 2003 | Jan-June 2004 | % +/- | Jan-June 2003 | Jan-June 2004 | % +/- | Jan-June 2003 | Jan-June 2004 | % +/- | Jan-June 2003 | Jan-June 2004 | % +/- | |
| Hotel | 1,966 | 1,831 | -6.9 | 1,064 | 1,180 | +10.9 | 1,262 | 1,401 | +11.0 | 166 | 262 | +57.8 |
| Guesthouse/B&B | 839 | 801 | -4.5 | 1,032 | 1,160 | +12.4 | 799 | 747 | -6.5 | 130 | 190 | +46.2 |
| Rented House/Apartment | 1,111 | 1,176 | +5.9 | 1,525 | 1,851 | +21.4 | 609 | 531 | -12.8 | 519 | 413 | -20.4 |
| Caravan/Camping | 162 | 98 | -39.5 | 170 | 154 | -9.4 | 4 | 4 | - | 3 | 2 | -33.3 |
| Hostel | 136 | 164 | +20.6 | 383 | 344 | -10.2 | 142 | 189 | +33.1 | 59 | 136 | +130.5 |
| Friends/Relatives | 2,937 | 2,795 | -4.8 | 1,103 | 1,183 | +7.3 | 674 | 760 | +12.8 | 504 | 646 | +28.2 |
| Other | 323 | 361 | +11.8 | 687 | 798 | +16.2 | 248 | 251 | +1.2 | 173 | 159 | -8.1 |
| Total | 7,474 | 7,226 | -3.3 | 5,964 | 6,670 | +11.8 | 3,738 | 3,883 | +3.9 | 1,554 | 1,808 | +16.3 |
| Total Tourist Accommodation | 4,214 | 4,070 | -3.4 | 4,174 | 4,689 | +12.3 | 2,816 | 2,872 | +2.0 | 877 | 1,003 | +14.4 |
Tidy Towns:
The Overall National Award Winner was the small town of Lismore, Co. Waterford.
More on Lismore
Irelands tidiest village is Moynalty, Co. Meath.
More on Moynalty
Tidiest large town is Westport co. Mayo.
More on Westport
The Tidy Towns Competition is run by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and has been sponsored by SuperValu since 1990.
Olympic Games:
Congratulations to Cian O'Connor who with the help of his horse, Waterford Crystal, brought home a gold medal for Ireland, in showjumping from the Olympics in Athens.
Cian O'Connor website
The 12th Paralympic Games opened in Athens on the 17th of this month and will run to the 28th. Ireland has 40 athletes competeing across 8 sports.
Paralympic Games website
Irish Paralympic Team
Rose of Tralee:
The 46th winner of the Rose of Tralee was Orla O'Shea from Kilkenny.
Rose of Tralee website
Although Eircom says 70% of phone lines are broadband enabled, Esat BT claim that as many of those lines either fail broadband tests or are too far from exchanges the true number would be closer to 45%.
Internet News
Ireland in "Internet slow lane"
Comreg, Irelands communications regulator is to take the drastic action of banning all direct dial calls to 13 South Pacific countries from October 4th in an attempt to crack down on an auto-dialling scam.
Calls to 13 countries blocked in internet fraud clampdown
German teenager, Sven Jaschan, is suspected of being responsible for 70% of of the virus activity in the first six months of this year. During a virus war between the MyDoom and Netsky virus writers, several variations of each virus was produced to fight for ownership of the infected computers.
Internet virus turf war resumes
Security firm hires teenager accused of writing Sasser virus
Thousands of zombie PCs created daily
Good Bye, Good Bye to Summer!
For Summer's nearly done;
Bright yellow, red, and orange,
The fireside for the cricket,
By William Allingham
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects the wind, the realist adjusts the sails.
Poem
The garden smiling faintly
Cool breezes in the sun;
Our thrushes now are silent,
Our swallows flown away,
But Robin's here in coat of brown,
And scarlet breast-knot gay.
Robin, Robin Redbreast,
O Robin dear!
Robin sings so sweetly
In the falling of the year.
The leaves come down in hosts;
The trees are Indian princes,
But soon they'll turn to ghosts;
The scanty pears and apples
Hang russet on the bough;
It's Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late,
'Twill soon be Winter now,
Robin, Robin Redbreast,
O Robin dear!
And what will this poor Robin do?
For pinching days are near.
The wheat-stack for the mouse,
When trembling night-winds whistle
And moan all round the house.
The frosty ways like iron,
The branches plumed with snow,---
Alas! in Winter dead and dark,
Where can poor Robin go?
Robin, Robin Redbreast,
O Robin dear!
And a crumb of bread for Robin,
His little heart to cheer!Final
Thought
Slán
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