Brexit fallout sees collapse of southeast tourism project

The route is due to run out of money by the end of August

With no successor to the Ireland-Wales European Territorial Co-operation Programme, Tourism Minister, Catherine Martin said that she has asked her officials to "keep under review the potential for future collaborative tourism initiatives with Wales.” Picture: Denis Scannell

A busy tourist project connecting Ireland's southeast with three Welsh counties will come to an end in August due to a collapse in funding.

Launched in 2019, Celtic Routes was designed to expand and promote links between Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow and Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Ceredigion in Wales. However, after four years in operation, the fallout of Brexit has seen funding for the tourism route dry up, with the project set to end on the 31st of August if new funds cannot be found.