Plans to make Ireland a global centre for activity and outdoors holidays will be boosted by a conference to be attended by 650 international delegates next month.

NOW that the Celtic Tiger has died, the post mortems focus on the economic and property collapses, but the spotlight is beginning to be put on the Tiger’s physical effects on the landscape of Ireland.

Four members of Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party are to join politicians from across Ireland and Britain for the first time later this month at a major conference in Kerry.