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"As well as being able to stay in my lodge, Vipp also enjoys the novelty of joining me for dinner in the hotel with dogs permitted to dine in the lounge which extends beyond the restaurant."

Travel correspondent Vipp at his Killyhevlin Lakeside Lodge.

The figures are in: Northern Ireland has literally never been a more popular destination with ROI travellers. Just this week, the CSO revealed that the six counties received a record-breaking 809,000 trips from the Republic from January to September last year compared to 530,000 during the same period in 2019.

That’s a 53% leap and according to Tourism NI’s Chief Executive John McGrillen, it’s a figure that demonstrates that Northern Ireland is firmly on the short break radar for people from down South.