Call for free travel here to attract EU senior citizens

FREE travel in Ireland for all European Union senior citizens would encourage millions of visitors to visit Ireland, say the country’s hoteliers.

Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism Martin Cullen said a push by the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) to introduce free travel for all EU citizens over 66 years of age is a novel idea.

“We’ll have to look and see how we do it but it’s imaginative and maybe it’s this sort of thinking outside the box that we have to do at the moment,” he said.