Ireland’s ‘unfriendly welcome’ to tourists

Ireland remains out of touch with other European states when it comes to providing parking or other facilities for an increasing number of campervans or motorhomes.

Tourists travelling throughout the continent find an abundance of overnight parking areas with facilities, known in France as ‘aire de stationnement’ and referred to in English as ‘aires’.

Such tourists, it was claimed, are made very welcome in many European countries but not in Ireland.