Wild Atlantic Way ranked alongside Route 66 by Lonely Planet

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

It is namechecked alongside classic routes such as Australia’s Great Ocean Road and Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh Road in a book of the 50 best drives in the world.

The travel bible dubbed the rebranded 2,575km route from Kinsale to Derry at the tip of the country as “untamed and utterly divine”.