Cruise ships brought 100,000 people to Cork last year

The number of passengers on cruise ships visiting Cork broke the 100,000 figure for the first time ever last year.

New figures on port traffic show a total of 102,217 tourists arrived at the cruise ship terminal in Cobh and deepwater berth at Ringaskiddy during 2015.

The 22% growth in number of cruise ship visitors helped Cork to overtake Dublin for the first time in terms of tourist numbers.