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Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin announced ‘Call of the Wild’, a joint initiative between the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Fáilte Ireland 

and Tourism Ireland.  The initiative aims to give local people on the Wild Atlantic Way the opportunity to have their hidden gems included in a global social media campaign, while at the same time highlight to their own social network the beauty of the locality as a holiday destination. Over the coming weeks, locals from along the Wild Atlantic Way will be called on to share photos and videos that showcase the beauty of the West Coast on social media using the hashtag #MyWildAtlanticWay.

  The best photos and videos will be shared by Tourism Ireland on its social platforms with millions of potential holidaymakers around the world (Tourism Ireland has around 4.3 million Facebook fans worldwide, almost 500,000 followers on Twitter and 425,000 followers on Instagram). Everyone who gets involved will have the chance to win a 2-night getaway along the Wild Atlantic Way.

A group of Canadian travel agents has been exploring the island of Ireland this week – as guests of Tourism Ireland, Fáilte Ireland, Tourism NI and Air Canada.

The travel agents are pictured at the Foynes Flying Boat Museum, with Sandra Moffatt, Tourism Ireland (left).

 The agents flew to Shannon on Air Canada’s new, direct flight from Toronto, which was launched in June – so, the visit was a good opportunity to highlight ease of access for Canadian holidaymakers to the West of Ireland.

The Devlin , sister hotel to The Dean of Dublin's Harcourt Street, is due to open for business in November.

Located in Ranelagh, The Devlin includes 40 bedrooms, a coffee hatch in its lobby and a luxury cinema as well as a cocktail bar called Americana Bar and Layla's restaurant.

 The Devlin's Americana Bar will also serve food, and cocktails will be available to consume while watching movies in the venue's cinema.

 

The company behind Dublin's Gresham Hotel last year made a €4.9m operating profit in 2017 on revenue of €17.6m. That compared to €5.5m and €18.2m respectiv

 The directors of the Gresham firm, who include Riu CEO Luis Riu Güell, noted that while revenue and profits at the hotel fell last year, it's anticipated that the figures will 

 The latest set of accounts show that the Gresham generated €13.6m in revenue from room sales last year, and €3.5m from food and bar sales. The rooms sales figure was about €500,000 lower than in 2016, while the food and bar sales were down €1m.

 The Riu group paid €92m for the Gresham, after the hotel had been put up for sale earlier that year by Nama.