Tourism hit: Ireland gets seal of approval from US State Department

ACCREDITED with bestowing the gift of the gab, Blarney Castle will soon be the talk of the US after a photograph of the country’s top tourist attraction was posted on the homepage of the US Department of State’s www.state.gov website.

The site gets over 11 million hits a month and the Department of Foreign Affairs is delighted with what is effectively free advertising for our tourism industry.

Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern gave it his ministerial seal of approval yesterday.