For sheer unadulterated exhilaration, it is hard to beat a boat excursion to the Bull Rock off Dursey Island, Co Cork.

With a friendly welcome, fun activities, and delicious food, Sligo has it all, writes Catherine Shanahan.

Tommy Barker hears how events long ago and far away sculpted the shoreline near this West Cork cottage.

Kya deLongchamps says jump into National Heritage Week this August 18-26 and make your own personal connection to the past.

Garish advertising placards on roadsides around a local supermarket became a regular feature after the business became a Eurospar outlet. Corridors of signs turned country roads into shopping malls.

It is three years since broadcaster John Creedon took to the byways in a camper van to explore the Wild Atlantic Way.

With the recent spell of good weather our appreciation for how beautiful Ireland is has increased, leading many of us to think we should holiday more at home.

Fáilte Ireland is examining the possibility of developing a full-scale walking trail along the entire Wild Atlantic Way route. The ambitious plan is a key objective of the tourism body’s 10-Year Vision for Tourism.

With the arrival of Easter traditionally taken as the start of the Irish tourist season proper, the portents for 2018 seem grounded in a healthy optimism for another bumper year.

Mark Hamill has been singing Ireland’s praises once again saying that he wished they could have shot the entire of Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Ireland.

Last year residents of European cities almost over-run with tourists — Venice and Barcelona in particular — intensified their protests objecting to the way commercial interests have taken over and, in their eyes, destroyed the communities they live in.

The Government is considering a hop-on, hop-off bus service along the Wild Atlantic Way.

Fáilte Ireland have revealed their latest advert to coincide with the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

‘Traffic bottlenecks’ are developing on the Wild Atlantic Way tourist route in peak season. Fáilte Ireland has said long delays and capacity issues are “negatively affecting the visitor experience”, according to an internal brief.

Hedges are so overgrown in Dingle and South Kerry that the much-advertised Wild Atlantic Way views are being blacked out to road users and the mirrors of tourist buses and cars are regularly damaged, it has been claimed.

Fáilte Ireland to consider west Cork spot for Wild Atlantic Way.

The route is listed in the Lonely Planet's '50 Epic Drives of the World'.

The Wild Atlantic Way has been ranked alongside America’s Route 66 as one of the world’s ultimate road trips by Lonely Planet.

Fáilte Ireland is to examine the possible inclusion of a West Cork peninsula on the Wild Atlantic Way tourist trail.

A new cycling event is aiming to generate €13m and 50,000 nights for hotels and B&Bs.

THE Wild Atlantic Way tourism initiative is obviously a success, well planned and executed, paying dividends to the geographically marginalised communities through which it passes, writes Damien Enright.

Peter Dowdall visits the 97-acre estate at Inish Beg Estate near Baltimore, Co Cork, and meets the owners whose organic approach has reaped resplendent rewards.

Stunning!

Experience Ireland’s Ancient East and Wild Atlantic Way in a unique video starting at Cork Airport.

A Kerry-based entrepreneur has brought a little bit of Everest to the Wild Atlantic Way.

The Wild Atlantic Way has received a prestigious accolade at an Awards ceremony in China this week.

Fáilte Ireland is installing new 'story panels' at all of its 188 Discovery Points along the Wild Atlantic Way.

A spectacular artistic Wild Atlantic Way inauguration day tribute to US President-elect Donald Trump is being planned for Ballybunion.

The beauty of County Kerry and the Wild Atlantic Way will be showcased on Top Gear tonight.

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Taste the Atlantic is a seafood journey that stretches south from Erris in Co Mayo to Connemara and on to Galway Bay.

In the summer of 1991 Paul Clements hitchhiked the coastline of Ireland for his first travel book. Twenty-five years on, he retraced his footsteps for a new book based on a journey along the Wild Atlantic Way – this time by car and bike, on foot and on horseback

They have been described as “gallows” by some critics and even as “a blight on the landscape” by others, but Fáilte Ireland says its discovery point signs on the Wild Atlantic Way were erected after a lengthy public consultation process.