Top travel bloggers aim to get Ireland on trend
So said — or rather tweeted — Mela Mortenback from Austria, one of the 600 travel bloggers huddled in a Dublin hotel yesterday, stoically upbeat despite being under siege by three days of the heaviest rain seen in the city this year.
Delegates to the huge event couldn’t have picked a worse time, weather-wise, to see the sights, yet John Concannon, marketing director with Fáilte Ireland, which is hosting the international gathering, insisted the grey skies didn’t place a single cloud over the proceedings.
