Morning Ireland on tour
The tourism industry, like many other parts of our economy, has taken a drubbing over the last eighteen months to two years and the boom years are but a distant memory now.
The latest CSO figures show a dramatic decline in the number of overseas visitors coming to our shores - down over half a million for the first five months of 2010.
John Murray and Cian McCormack are out and about this week, touring the country and sleeping in a tent!
They're finding out about how the country is coping with the new reality of fewer tourists and lower spending...
- Morning Ireland: Mary Hanafin, Minister for Tourism, discusses issues hurting and helping the tourism industry in Ireland
- Morning Ireland: The Hickey family speak about their experiences over the past week holidaying in Ireland
- Morning Ireland: Cian McCormack reports from the Causey farm near Navan on how one farmer has been turning mucking and milking into a sizeable tourist attraction
- Morning Ireland: Cian McCormack discusses emails from both disgruntled and happy tourists in Ireland
- Morning Ireland: Sharon Gaffney reports on her tourist excursion in Dublin city centre yesterday afternoon
- RTÉ.ie Extra Audio: Cian McCormack speaks to some continental European visitors in Kinvara.
- RTÉ.ie Extra Audio: Killarney based Mike Buckley runs Kerry coaches and talks to John Murray about the challenges facing businesses like his
- RTÉ.ie Extra Audio: John Murray spoke to Max, the driver of a coach which brings Europeans on holiday and takes a trailer behind it as sleeping accomadation.
- RTÉ.ie Extra Audio: John Murray speaks to the Hickeys from Cork, a family of four in self-catering accommodation, Burren Coast, in Ballyvaughan. Peter and Francis and their children Eimear and Lorcan told him about their holiday at home...
- Morning Ireland: John Murray talks to tourism providers about what is being done to deal with the reality of falling numbers
- Morning Ireland: Cian McCormack finds out about angling in the west
- Morning Ireland: Sister Maureen Lally, Croagh Patrick Heritage Trail, discusses efforts to develop spiritual tourism in the west and northweast
- Morning Ireland: John Murray outlines what is to come from the west and northwest
- Morning Ireland: Pauline Stewart of Carrickfin Airport, Shaun Rodgers of Real Ireland Tours and Bren Whelan of mountain training.ie, discuss their methods of attracting tourists to the county
- Morning Ireland: Cian McCormick speaks with tourists enjoying Finntown Railway
- Morning Ireland: John Murray and Cian McCormick speak to tourists in Strandhill
- Morning Ireland: John Murray reports from Gweedore
- Morning Ireland: The Hickey family from Dublin discuss their two-week 'staycation', while Paidi Ó Sé and Patrick O'Donoghue, Gleneagle Hotel, assess Kerry's tourism season
- Morning Ireland: Cian McCormack finds out more about Fungi the dolphin and how he has helped the tourism business in the Dingle area
- Morning Ireland: Cian McCormack discovers that the Paddywagon is a alternative for those hoping to tour Ireland on a budget
- Morning Ireland: John Murray finds out how the town of Cashel in Tipperary is coping with the decline in overseas visitors
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'There are always other options and help is always there ...'
Kerry teenager Donal Walsh has died after losing his battle with cancer.
He passed away at his home in Blennerville, County Kerry, surrounded by his dad Fionnbar, his mother Elma and his sister Jemma.
Donal, aged 16, had publicly appealed to young people not to end their lives. He wrote a letter which brought him to national prominence.
He had been battling cancer since he was first diagnosed four years ago, and had raised over €50,000 for charity.
Weeks before his death, Donal recorded a video message to be circulated in schools.
Fr Francis Nolan, parish priest of St. John's in Tralee, was with Donal Walsh's family in the hours after his death
Minister of State for Mental Health Kathleen Lynch paid tribute to Donal's 'generosity of spirit'