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The boat to Spike Island

Tourism marketing campaigns can often feel a little hokey. Sometimes I feel I’m not worthy of an Irish holiday if I don’t have access to a VW Combi camper, a surf-board and a group of rent-a-model friends straight from a craft beer commercial. 

But Fáilte Ireland seem to have got this effort right. Not quite a month since the launch of its Make a Break For It campaign, already the nation’s social media feeds are loaded with hash-tagged holiday snaps of everywhere from West Cork on fleek to Connemara looking like a Carrageen moss-rich Aegean.